Kanishka Sharma

WASHINGTON (Reuters] – Mark Meadows who was former Republican president Donald Trump’s chief staffer, falsely claimed widespread fraud in 2020. As a result, the North Carolina state has removed Meadows from North Carolina’s voter rolls.

“After documentation showed Mark Meadows lived in Virginia, the Macon County Board of Elections removed Mark Meadows’ voter registration on April 11,” Patrick Gannon, North Carolina State Board of Elections spokesperson said in an email statement Wednesday.

Last month, state officials said that Meadows was under investigation in North Carolina for his voter registration. The probe was led by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation after the case was referred to the Department of Justice Special Prosecutions Section.

The investigation was in response to claims that Meadows, who represented North Carolina in Congress from 2013 until joining the Trump administration in 2020, registered to vote in September 2020 with an address at which he did not reside, own or visit, the News & Observer newspaper had reported.

He was also registered to vote in Virginia. And he voted in a 2021 election. The last election he voted in Macon County was in 2020,” Macon County Board of Elections Director Melanie Thibault said in an email on Wednesday.

According to North Carolina’s state elections board website, all voters must reside in the county they wish to register and be there at least thirty days before the election.

A congressional committee that was investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021 by Trump’s supporters to prevent the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory in the election, also charged Meadows with contempt.