Mark Meadows, his wife, Debra, and their trailer-home voter registration

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/08/mark-meadows-his-wife-debra-their-trailer-home-voter-registration/

No paywall
https://archive.ph/z2fXC

“I don’t want my vote or anyone else’s to be disenfranchised. … Do you realize how inaccurate the voter rolls are, with people just moving around. … Anytime you move, you’ll change your driver’s license, but you don’t call up and say, hey, by the way I’m re-registering.”
— Mark Meadows, at the time White House chief of staff, in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Aug. 16, 2020

“We need to make sure that everybody’s vote is cast. But we also need to make sure that no one else disenfranchises those by creating a fraud on the voting system.”
— Meadows, in an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Aug. 23, 2020

In the run-up to the 2020 election, President Donald Trump repeatedly warned about potential election fraud — as did Meadows. But, apparently, what’s good for the goose is not always good for the gander.

About a month after Meadows made these statements, Charles Bethea of the New Yorker reported, Meadows and his wife, Debra, submitted voter registration forms that listed as their residential address a 14-by-62-foot mobile home with a rusted metal roof that sold for $105,000 in 2021.

The forms ask for a residential address — “where you physically live” — and are signed “under penalty of perjury.” According to Bethea’s reporting, Meadows and his wife have never lived there — and Meadows himself may have never set foot in the house. But the couple used that address to cast ballots in the 2020 general election, North Carolina voting records show.

Six months earlier, in March 2020, Meadows sold, for $370,000, a house in Sapphire, N.C., meaning the couple no longer had a place of residence in the state. Instead, they lived at the time in a condominium in Old Town Alexandria in Virginia. But that did not stop Debra Meadows from using the old Sapphire registration to cast a ballot in a June primary runoff election for someone for whom she had done fundraising.

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[dsc]

1. In 2020 the Chief Justice seat on the NC Supreme Court was decided by fewer than 200 votes

meaning that those 2 provided 1/2 of 1% of his margin.

[drray23]

2. Nice find by this journalist but I don't think it matters

Since when has there been any consequences for the likes of Meadows ? If you are black and mistakenly attempt to vote by requesting a provisional ballot while on probation you land in jail.

If you are a white republican politician, you are probably in the clear.

[exboyfil]

3. I am still trying to work out how Trump was allowed to vote in Florida in 2020

He should have only been allowed to vote in NY or Washington DC. Florida as a residence could only be established after he left office (and it shouldn't have been a residence even then if he complied to the laws and covenants of his property).

[spanone]

4. Another lying republican.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Stinkin lying hypocrite!

And criminal, too!

But he’s a white male Trump associate, so he’ll never be held accountable.

[raging moderate]

6. DOES PAMELA MOSES HAVE A GOFUNDME SITE?

I am 74 and not very sophisticated. I was angry when she got sent to jail just for asking if she could vote. I was happy when she got released, but worried about the continuing threat hanging over her. I feel that I can depend on Democratic Underground for good information.

[exboyfil]

7. Not only a BS six year sentence

A Brady violation.

She should be a wealthy woman after this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/25/pamela-moses-new-trial-voting-memphis-judge

[SheltieLover]

8. Lock them up!

[PJMcK]

9. Total projection

Meadows is projecting his own behavior onto others. It's appalling that Republicans scream about voter fraud but they're the ones committing the crimes with zero consequences.

I've moved a great many times in my 64 years. In spite of what Meadows said in the quote above, I've always changed my voter registration. It's on the checklist of things I have to do-- like notify the banks, credit card companies, etc.-- when I change my residence.

From the reporting, it's clear that Meadows thinks that since he doesn't behave properly, no one else does either. He's just like Trump. No wonder they get along so well.

[young_at_heart]

10. My district recently......Meadows and then Cawthorn!!

Asheville residents have not chosen those two....but all the surrounding small counties have. It makes me sick!!!

[uponit7771]

11. K&R,

[Jarqui]

12. They do things like this or gerrymandering or

reducing polling places to vote in black neighborhoods, or lie, etc. etc, etc

because they can't sell what they really stand for to the majority of Americans.
What they really stand for would never be popular.

The simple democratic concept was to present to the people what a candidate was going to do for them to earn their vote. That won't work for the GOP. They can't get elected that way anymore.

Like Putin in the Ukraine, this GOP behavior is going to continue until Americans stand up and hammer it with serious consequences to stop it.