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In April, North Carolina removed Meadows from the voter roll
after state authorities said they were investigating his voter
registration. Meadows has previously echoed Trump's false claims
of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
"After a thorough review, my office has concluded that there is
not sufficient evidence to bring charges against either of them
(Meadows and his wife) in this matter," North Carolina Attorney
General Josh Stein said in a statement.
The investigation was in response to claims in a New Yorker
magazine report 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.
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.
Separately, this month when the House of Representatives panel
that probed the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol asked
federal prosecutors to charge Trump, it named Meadows as
participating in conspiracies the committee linked to the former
president.
Recently released transcript by the committee also showed that
former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson had testified that
Meadows was seen burning documents roughly a dozen times in the
period between President Joe Biden's election and his
inauguration. Hutchison said she did not know what the documents
were.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Josie
Kao)
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