Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, a primary advocate for purging voting rolls of duplicate and inactive registrations which could delete legitimate voters against their wishes, not only voted in a district where he had no permanent residence, but he also was simultaneously registered to vote in three different states, the Washington Post reports.

A full-time resident of northern Virginia during the Trump Administration, Meadows was also simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and South Carolina.  Meadows’ various voter registrations have come under public scrutiny after it was disclosed that Meadows used the North Carolina address he used to register was a mobile home he never stepped for in, but his mother lived in from at least 2014 to 2017; she registered to vote in Georgia in September 2018.

Meadows used the address based on a “government service” provision in North Carolina law that allows a person to use an address in the state as their legal residence for voter registration if the person had spent one night there but had moved to Washington to work in a federal or military job.  There’s no record of Meadows ever staying in the mobile home, which his mother sold to move to a retirement community in Georgia. 

Meadows’ wife, Debra, is also registered to vote using the mobile home address, although the “government service” provision doesn’t apply to her because she is not a government employee and the provision doesn’t extend to a spouse.

Both Mark and Debra Meadows used the North Carolina address to obtain and cast absentee ballots in the November 2020 election.  The registrations had been canceled as of last week.

Meadows purchased a 6,000 square foot residence in Sunset, South Carolina for $1.6 million in July 2021.  They also own a townhouse in Alexandria, Virginia that they sold in March 2022 for $750,000, which was their primary residence while Meadows served in Washington.