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Mark Meadows was at one time registered to vote in three states (Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina) at the same time. That is not illegal as long as he didn't vote in more than one of them. However, he didn't live at the address he registered in North Carolina, and had apparently never lived there, and that is illegal. Nevertheless, on Friday, North Carolina AG Josh Stein (D) announced his decision not to prosecute Meadows.
Stein decided that there was not enough evidence to go after either Meadows or his wife, who was also registered at an address where she didn't live. Stein was concerned that he couldn't prove his case to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt and so decided not to chance it.
The address where Meadows and his wife registered was a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, NC. At the time he registered, he was White House chief of staff and living in D.C. However, North Carolina state law says that people who are working for the government in D.C. don't actually have to sleep in their North Carolina house all the time, or even 183 days a year to qualify for North Carolina residency. The key legal question is what Meadows' "permanent place of abode" was. That could have been in Scaly Mountain, even if Meadows was never there, because state law recognizes that working for the government is always a temporary gig. So, in the end, Meadows got away with claiming that other people voted fraudulently when he himself never lived at the address he was registered at. (V)