Melanie Thibault, director of Macon County’s electoral council, confirmed her decision to the Asheville Citizen Times, which reported that registration for Meadows’s wife, Debra, remained active. Before working for Trump, Meadows was a member of Congress from North Carolina. According to the New Yorker, which reported the story last month, Meadows listed a caravan rental in Scaly Mountain, which he allegedly had never visited. He voted from there as an absentee in the 2020 presidential election. He then registered to vote in Virginia. According to neighbors in Scaly Mountain and the former owner of the property, Debra Meadows rented and stayed in the caravan for “a few nights”, but her husband was never seen there. Thibault said removing Meadows from the electoral roll was a standard procedure under a statute that says a person who votes in another state loses his or her North Carolina registration. Meadows, who with his wife owns an apartment in Virginia, reportedly voted in that state in 2021, sparking a decision to remove him from the lists. Citizen reported that the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation was continuing its investigation into possible voter fraud by Meadows, a staunch Trump ally who never commented on the story. The office, the paper said, would not comment on whether Meadows’s removal from the North Carolina roster would affect his investigation. Meadows commented extensively on the dangers of voter fraud and its alleged role in Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election. He referred extensively to the subject in his memoirs, The Chief’s Chief, a book that caused a great deal of controversy when he revealed that Trump was positive and then negative to Covid before his first debate against Joe Biden, results that Mendows did not disclose. “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 in the book, adding: “We wanted to approach any eventuality. challenges with the utmost seriousness “. Trump’s campaign has lost the vast majority of cases alleging voter fraud in court. Trump’s lie about the massive voter fraud in Biden’s victory also sparked the deadly attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to stop the certification of college election results. In his book, Meadows described the attack on the Capitol as “shameful” and “the sad actions of a small group of people”. About 800 people, however, have been charged with offenses including conspiracy to commit insurrection. Meadows also claimed that “millions” of Americans had “real concerns” about voter fraud. Meadows’s own legal risk is not limited to North Carolina. The House committee investigating the attack referred him to the Department of Justice for a possible charge of criminal contempt of Congress.
