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Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff, finds voter fraud - pdq - 03-11-2022
…in the mirror.
… Meadows listed a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, as his physical address in September 2020, while he was serving as Trump's chief of staff in Washington. Meadows later cast an absentee ballot [in North Carolina] for the general election by mail. CBS News independently confirmed the voting record, which is publicly available. Trump won the battleground state by just over 1 percentage point.
Meadows’ “permanent legal residence”:
Don’t feel too bad for Meadows. He doesn’t actually own this tin shack, and apparently has never lived there.
…the former owner of the Scaly Mountain property, described as a 14-foot by 62-foot mobile home with a rusty metal roof, who indicated that Meadows does not own the home and never has. The previous owner said Meadows' wife rented the property "for two months at some point within the past few years" but only spent one or two nights there. Neighbors said Meadows was never present.
When Virginia had its gubernatorial election last fall, he switched his voter registration back to that state weeks before the election, where the Republican candidate won by a whisker. Well, that’s convenient. He sure moves around a lot.
Meadows frequently raised the prospect of voter fraud before the 2020 presidential election… and in the months following Trump's loss to suggest Biden was not the legitimate winner. He repeated baseless claims that the election was stolen in his 2021 memoir.
The thing is, Republicans aren’t against voter fraud per se. They just want to be the exclusive practitioners of it.
Re: Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff, finds voter fraud - Acer - 03-11-2022
Rich people can rent a closet in the district and declare themselves a resident. The guy who's lived in the neighborhood all his life forgets to cross the T on his signature gets his ballot shredded.
Re: Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff, finds voter fraud - pdq - 03-11-2022
Will North Carolina do anything about this? They famously declined to charge a woman who knowingly cast a vote in the name of her dead mother for Trump, saying aw, it was just an honest mistake.
:RollingEyesSmiley5:
Re: Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff, finds voter fraud - Tiangou - 03-11-2022
pdq wrote:
Will North Carolina do anything about this? They famously declined to charge a woman who knowingly cast a vote in the name of her dead mother for Trump, saying aw, it was just an honest mistake.
:RollingEyesSmiley5:
Meanwhile...
Arrested, Jailed and Charged With a Felony. For Voting.
Keith Sellars and his daughters were driving home from dinner at a Mexican restaurant last December when he was pulled over for running a red light. The officer ran a background check and came back with bad news for Mr. Sellars. There was a warrant out for his arrest.
As his girls cried in the back seat, Mr. Sellars was handcuffed and taken to jail.
His crime: Illegal voting.
“I didn’t know,” said Mr. Sellars, who spent the night in jail before his family paid his $2,500 bond. “I thought I was practicing my right.”
Mr. Sellars, 44, is one of a dozen people in Alamance County in North Carolina who have been charged with voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election. All were on probation or parole for felony convictions, which in North Carolina and many other states disqualifies a person from voting. If convicted, they face up to two years in prison.
While election experts and public officials across the country say there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, local prosecutors and state officials in North Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Idaho and other states have sought to send a tough message by filing criminal charges against the tiny fraction of people who are caught voting illegally.
“That’s the law,” said Pat Nadolski, the Republican district attorney in Alamance County. “You can’t do it. If we have clear cases, we’re going to prosecute.”
...In separate interviews, five of the defendants in Alamance County said their votes were an unwitting mistake — a product of not understanding the voter forms they signed and not knowing the law.
Re: Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff, finds voter fraud - pdq - 03-11-2022
Tiangou wrote:
[quote=pdq]
Will North Carolina do anything about this? They famously declined to charge a woman who knowingly cast a vote in the name of her dead mother for Trump, saying aw, it was just an honest mistake.
:RollingEyesSmiley5:
Meanwhile...
Arrested, Jailed and Charged With a Felony. For Voting.
…While election experts and public officials across the country say there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, local prosecutors and state officials in North Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Idaho and other states have sought to send a tough message by filing criminal charges against the tiny fraction of people who are caught voting [ Democratic ] illegally.
“That’s the law,” said Pat Nadolski, the Republican district attorney in Alamance County. “You can’t do it. If we have clear cases [ of potential Democratic voters doing this by accident ] we’re going to prosecute.”
You missed a few words there.
:wink:
Re: Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff, finds voter fraud - RgrF - 03-11-2022
“That’s the law,” said Pat Nadolski, the Republican district attorney in Alamance County. “You can’t do it. If we have clear cases, we’re going to prosecute.”
Another form of vote suppression. When prosecutions like this are publicized it serves to cast fear, if someone is unsure they just won't vote which serves this GOP prosecutor's purpose as well.
Re: Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff, finds voter fraud - pdq - 03-11-2022
RgrF wrote:
“If we have clear cases, we’re going to prosecute.”
Anyway, it’s a pretty “clear case” that giving a false home address for the purposes of voting in that state is fraudulent.
Somehow I doubt Meadows will be threatened with jail time over this.