The Raleigh News & Observer reports:
The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into allegations that a former Trump aide who once represented North Carolina in Congress may have committed voter fraud.
Nazneen Ahmed, spokeswoman for Attorney General Josh Stein’s office, confirmed the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after the New Yorker first reported that the former congressman registered to vote in September 2020 using an address he had never visited.
Meadows has been a proponent of voter fraud conspiracy theories and has helped spread false claims that the 2020 election of President Joe Biden was stolen.
The Washington Post reports:
It is illegal to provide false information on a voter registration, and while Americans can have multiple residences, they can have only one official domicile, which is tied to their voter registration.
To register to vote in North Carolina, a citizen must have lived in the county where they are registering and have resided there for at least 30 days before the date of the election, according to the state’s board of elections.
Experts have scrutinized Meadows’s actions as potential voter fraud. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker examined the details of the case and wrote that it was “jarring to see such fishy behavior by someone who decried” voter fraud.
Why would Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, risk committing voter fraud by listing as his domicile the address of a mobile home where he apparently never slept?https://t.co/nStCOuA5Ff
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) March 18, 2022
As it happens, the neighbors of the mobile home linked to Mark Meadows’s own North Carolina voter registration had confirmed to me, a week earlier, what the home’s owner had just told me: Meadows never set foot inside the space pictured below. That constitutes voter fraud. 4/5 pic.twitter.com/vTEAgErfSf
— Charles Bethea (@charlesbethea) March 18, 2022
North Carolina officials said they plan to investigate whether Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s chief of staff, broke the law when he registered to vote, and voted, from a remote mobile home where he did not live. https://t.co/WlDByEImfs
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 18, 2022