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"The Macon County Board of Elections administratively removed
the voter registration of Mark Meadows ... on April 11, after
documentation indicated he lived in Virginia and last voted in
the 2021 election there," North Carolina State Board of
Elections spokesman Patrick Gannon said in an emailed statement
on Wednesday.
State authorities said last month that Meadows was being
investigated in North Carolina over his voter registration.
North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation was assigned to
lead the probe after a district attorney referred the matter to
the state Department of Justice Special Prosecutions Section.
The investigation was in response to claims that Meadows, who
represented North Carolina in Congress from 2013 until joining
the Trump administration in 2020, registered to vote in
September 2020 with an address at which he did not reside, own
or visit, the News & Observer newspaper had reported.
"What I found was that he was also registered in the state of
Virginia. And he voted in a 2021 election. The last election he
voted in Macon County was in 2020," Macon County Board of
Elections Director Melanie Thibault said in an email on
Wednesday.
In North Carolina, voters must live in the county where they are
registering and have resided there for at least 30 days prior to
the election date, according to the state elections board
website.
Meadows was also the subject of contempt charges by a
congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on
the U.S. Capitol, in which Trump and his supporters sought to
stop the certification of now-President Joe Biden's election
victory.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Bill
Berkrot)
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