Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is removed from voter roll in North Carolina and investigated for ELECTION FRAUD for registering to vote from mobile home he never owned or lived in

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Mark Meadows has been removed from North Carolina's voter rolls as he is being investigated for election fraud. 

Macon County Board of Elections Director Melanie Thibault said that she consulted with the state's Board of Elections staff in Raleigh after finding records showing that former President Trump's chief of staff was registered in both North Carolina and Virginia. Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman, was removed from the roll on Monday, according to the Asheville Citizen-Times. 

'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,' she said. 

Meadows' outcries of election fraud in the 2020 presidential race run up against reports that he was registered to vote absentee in 2020 at the address of a North Carolina mobile home he has neither stayed in nor owned. 

Thibault said that when Meadows registered in Virginia he did not include information about his North Carolina registration. Thibault said that removing voters from the roll this way is standard procedure. 

When Meadows was tapped to serve as Trump's chief of staff, he and his wife Debbie sold their home in Sapphire, N.C. to move to a condo in Virginia near Washington, D.C. But when Meadows, registered to vote, he and his wife both registered in North Carolina, writing that their residential address was a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, N.C., as was first reported by the New Yorker. 

Mark Meadows has been removed from North Carolina's voter rolls as he is being investigated for election fraud 

Ahead of the 2020 election, Meadows registered his address to this Scaly Mountain mobile home in North Carolina 

The home's new owner remarked that he'd made a lot of improvements, but 'it was not the kind of place you’d think the chief of staff of the President would be staying' 

The previous owner said that Meadows' wife Debbie had rented out the property, which sits in the southern Appalachian mountains, for two months at some point in the past few years. The owner told the New Yorker that Debbie had spent maybe one or two nights there total, and Mark Meadows had not spent any time there.

The former owner put the mobile home up for sale in the summer of 2020, but the Meadows never expressed an interest in buying it. 

The New Yorker informed Thibault that Meadows was registered to vote there. 'I'm kind of dumbfounded, to be honest with you,' she said after perusing his election forms. 

'I looked up this Mcconnell Road, which is in Scaly Mountain, and I found out that it was a dive trailer in the middle of nowhere, which I do not see him or his wife staying in.'   

Meadows and his wife registered by mail and their voter registration card was sent to a P.O. box they provided as their mailing address Thibault said there are few checks on a voter's residential address - as long as the voter registration card does not come back as undeliverable, a voter's address is considered legitimate. 

The home's previous owner said that Meadows' wife had rented the place out for a total of two months over the past few years 

The owner said that Meadows' wife Debbie had stayed there one or two nights, but Meadows himself had not 

 The former owner put the mobile home up for sale in the summer of 2020, but the Meadows never expressed an interest in buying it

The home is situated at the end of a quiet road in the southern Appalachian mountains 

Meadows, at the time, was reportedly mulling a run for the Senate seat that will be vacated by Richard Burr after this year, and could have risked being accused of voter fraud himself to keep voting in North Carolina. 

Meadows and his wife bought a $1.6 million lake-front property in South Carolina in 2021, according to the New Yorker, though they did not change their voter registration to the property and it remained linked to the Scaly Mountain home until this week.   

Meadows moved to the Tar Heel State in the mid-1980s and started a sandwich shop called 'Aunt D's' in the Highlands part of the state. He became a real estate broker before running for Congress in 2013.

He left the seat in 2020 to join the Trump administration where he pushed the debunked theory that the election was stolen from the former president.

In his memoir 'The Chief's Chief' published in December, Meadows went after Democrats' efforts to increase mail-in voting access, claiming it would lead to certain voter fraud. 

'President Trump had alerted us to the strong possibility that there would be fraud connected to these mail-in ballots, and we wanted to be on the lookout for it,' Meadows wrote. 'So, elsewhere in the White House complex, we had set up an internal brain room that provided information to the campaign team, and we wanted to approach any potential challenges with the utmost seriousness.' 

Meadows and his wife Debbie, pictured above, purchased a $1.6 million home in South Carolina in 2021 

Meadows and his wife purchased the South Carolina home above for $1.6 million 

The home is on waterfront property and is a far cry from the Scaly Mountain, N.C. mobile home where Meadows and his wife were both registered to vote until Monday, when Meadows was kicked off the North Carolina roll 

In addition to the South Carolina home above, Meadows and his wife own a Virginia condo. Meadows was registered to vote in both Virginia and North Carolina 

Meadows also pushed the Justice Department to look into a theory that the Italian government hacked voting machines using satellites, according to The New York Times.

In fact, he sent five emails to then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen urging him to investigate the 'ItalyGate' theory, the paper reported.

Rosen never agreed to the investigations, according to emails provided to Congress and obtained by the outlet. Sources said that Rosen rejected the requests from Meadows. 

In addition to the state investigation into his voter registration, Meadows could potentially face criminal charges if the Justice Department chooses to pursue them after the House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress for refusing to appear before the Jan. 6 committee.