Mark Meadows, a former top aide to Trump, has been removed from North Carolina polls as the state investigates allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election, election officials said Wednesday. Meadows, who served two terms as a member of Congress from North Carolina before becoming President Donald Trump’s White House aide, has helped promote Trump’s unfounded allegations that widespread voter fraud betrayed President Trump. But his withering rhetoric about possible voter fraud has clashed with reports in recent weeks that Meadows registered to vote in 2020 using the address of a North Carolina caravan where he never stayed. The reports prompted North Carolina state investigators to begin a search last month for Meadows voter registration. On Monday, Macon County officials “administratively removed Mark Meadows… voter registration after it was documented he lived in Virginia and voted for the last time in the 2021 election there,” North Carolina State Electoral Officer Garo said. in a statement Wednesday. The news of Meadows’s removal was first reported by the Asheville Citizen-Times. Meadows’s wife, Debra, remains registered to vote at Scaly Mountain, according to the newspaper. A Meadows spokesman declined to comment Wednesday. Analysis: Mark Meadows, his wife, Debra, and voter registration in the trailer According to the state of North Carolina, a person who moves and votes in another state or in the District of Columbia loses his or her residence in North Carolina. According to a New Yorker report last month, Meadows registered to vote in September 2020, three weeks before the North Carolina general election deadline, citing his home address as a 14-by-62-foot caravan at Scaly Mountain. NC Neither the house nor the property with this address belongs to him and he has never lived there, the magazine reported. It is not clear if Meadows has spent even one night at this address. The small caravan is owned by a Lowe’s retail manager, who bought it last summer from a widow living in Florida. The woman, who was not named by the New Yorker, told the magazine she had no idea Meadows had listed the house as her address on the voter registration form. If Meadows were found to have rigged voters, it would be contrary to his harsh criticism of Democrats. Along with Trump and many of his allies, Meadows repeatedly warned voters of fraud leading to the 2020 election and repeatedly denounced it in his book The Leader, published in December. In his memoirs, Meadows criticized Democrats’ efforts to push for increased mail access during the pandemic and linked it to certain fraud. He spoke in support of the US Alliance, but said that maintaining some independence was not the answer. “President Trump had warned us of the strong possibility that these ballot papers would be tampered with by mail, and we wanted to be vigilant about this,” Meadows wrote. “So elsewhere in the White House complex, we had created an internal brain room that provided information to the campaign team and we wanted to approach any potential challenges with the utmost seriousness.” If any of their analysts found fraud, he continued, Trump’s lawyers “will take legal action immediately.” Parliament voted December 14 to refer former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to the Department of Justice for refusing to comply with a summons. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: The Washington Post) In addition to the state inquiry into his North Carolina voter registration, Meadows has been screened for refusing to work with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 uprising in the US Capitol. In December, Parliament voted to keep Meadows in contempt of Congress for defying committee calls. Meadows remains a key figure in the commission’s investigation because he remained close to Trump between the election and the Capitol attack, as the president tried to overturn the results and spread false allegations of voter fraud. The text messages sent to Meadows on January 6 showed Trump’s failure to act quickly to stop the uprising, despite real-time calls from lawmakers, journalists and even his eldest son. The bipartisan panel is investigating the invasion of the Capitol by a mob in favor of Trump who tried to stop the certification of Biden’s victory in the electoral college, a siege that led to five deaths and injured about 140 members of law enforcement. Felicia Sonmez and Mariana Alfaro contributed to this exhibition.