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Where Is Mark Meadows Registered To Vote? More Like Where *Isn't* He Registered?

He's not just the president of the Quit Vote Fraud club, he's also a member.

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Home for sale with real estate sign. Front Yard.If your entire schtick was pretending that the United States is suffering from an epidemic of election fraud and thus needed to pass draconian laws making it much harder to vote, wouldn’t you make darn sure that your own voter registration was very cool and very legal?

Apparently not, if you’re Mark Meadows.

The former White House chief of staff has parked himself at the Conservative Partnership Institute, where the onetime proponent of the Italian space laser election fraud theory is still flogging the lie that that 2020 election was stolen by dint of massive fraud. He’s joined in his election “integrity” efforts at CPI by Cleta Mitchell, the erstwhile Foley & Lardner partner who sat in on the infamous call where Trump pressured the Georgia Secretary of State to “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we need.” Because this is 2022, and irony has been six feet under for quite some time.

So it wasn’t exactly surprising when The New Yorker discovered that Meadows and his wife’s North Carolina voter registration listed their home address as a mobile home in the town of Scaly Mountain (pop. 312) which they neither live in nor own. Indeed, the couple voted by absentee ballot in the 2020 election using the fake address, since they were, at the time, living in Virginia.

In fact, Meadows also registered to vote in Virginia in September 2021. And two months later, he did just that, casting his ballot in that state’s off-off-year gubernatorial election.

After the New Yorker story, North Carolina opened an investigation into Meadows’s voting record, and immediately kicked him off the rolls when it discovered the Virginia vote.

But now the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, AKA the “Fact Checker,” has discovered yet a third registration for Mr. and Mrs. Meadows. Because in July the couple bought themselves a 6,000sf lakefront estate in Sunset, South Carolina for $1.6 million, from which they registered to vote on March 22, 2022. Which means that, until South Carolina gave him the boot, Meadows was registered to vote in three states at once, something he and his fellow vote suppression travelers have treated as prima facie evidence of voter fraud.

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As Kessler points out, it seems highly unlikely that this could have happened if Meadows and his wife had disclosed that they were registered to vote in multiple states.

South Carolina and Virginia are members of the Electronic Registration Information Center, a nonprofit that provides member states with reports on voters. If Meadows had listed his Virginia voter registration while registering in South Carolina, the state would have notified Virginia. Angie Maniglia Turner, Alexandria’s general registrar and director of elections, said Thursday that there has been no change in the voter registration status in Virginia of either Mark or Debra Meadows.

Golly! If we didn’t know better, we’d think that this warrior for election integrity had deliberately lied on multiple voter registration forms to obscure his residence.

LOL.

Mark Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three states [WaPo]

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Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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