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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMark Meadows, his wife, Debra, and their trailer-home voter registration
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I dont want my vote or anyone elses to be disenfranchised. Do you realize how inaccurate the voter rolls are, with people just moving around. Anytime you move, youll change your drivers license, but you dont call up and say, hey, by the way Im re-registering.
Mark Meadows, at the time White House chief of staff, in an interview with CNNs Jake Tapper, Aug. 16, 2020
We need to make sure that everybodys 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 ABCs 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, whats 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 Betheas 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
(52,172 posts)meaning that those 2 provided 1/2 of 1% of his margin.
drray23
(7,638 posts)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
(17,865 posts)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
(135,915 posts)Diamond_Dog
(32,130 posts)And criminal, too!
But hes a white male Trump associate, so hell never be held accountable.
raging moderate
(4,314 posts)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
(17,865 posts)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
(57,073 posts)PJMcK
(22,060 posts)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
(3,774 posts)Asheville residents have not chosen those two....but all the surrounding small counties have. It makes me sick!!!
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)Jarqui
(10,131 posts)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.