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Mark Meadows removed from NC voter roll amid election fraud investigation
Again with voter fraud it is the Republicans doing it. This was tRump’s chief of staff.
Mark Meadows has been removed from North Carolina’s voter rolls, a move made as the State Bureau of Investigation continues a probe into allegations the former White House Chief of Staff committed election fraud.
Macon County Board of Elections Director Melanie Thibault confirmed April 12 that she had removed Meadows the prior day from the county’s active voter list.
Thibault said she consulted N.C. Board of Elections staff in Raleigh after finding records that Meadows was registered both in Virginia and North Carolina.
“What I found was that he was also registered in the state of Virginia. And he voted in a 2021 election. The last election he voted in Macon County was in 2020,” she said.
The state law under which he was removed was General Statute 163-57, which says, “if a person goes into another state, county, municipality, precinct, ward, or other election district, or into the District of Columbia, and while there exercises the right of a citizen by voting in an election, that person shall be considered to have lost residence in that State, county, municipality, precinct, ward, or other election district from which that person removed.”
Meadows spokesperson Ben Williamson did not respond to a request for comment.
Meadows, an ex-Asheville and Western North Carolina congressman, former top staffer for President Donald Trump and a leading proponent of the false claim that Trump lost the election due to widespread fraud, has not commented on the allegations since news broke in March that he registered to vote at a single-wide mobile home in Macon County where there is no evidence he ever lived. Meadows voted absentee using that address in the 2020 general election.
SBI spokesperson Anjanette Grube did not immediately respond to a message asking if the change in registration had any significance to the investigation.
Thibault said Virginia records show that when Meadows registered in that state he did not include information about his Macon County registration. Because of that, Virginia election officials did not notify N.C. officials about the double registration, she said.
It is a normal practice to remove voters such a way, Thibault said.
The registration of Meadows’ wife Debra remains active for the Scaly Mountain address, which neither she nor her husband ever owned.
News first broke of the unlikely voter address with March 6 New Yorker story that cited interviews with neighbors, the owner and former owner who said Debra Meadows rented the home and stayed there a few nights but Mark Meadows was never seen there.
Macon County Republican voters interviewed by the Citizen Times expressed skepticism a powerful member of the president’s staff lived in the small home with a rusted roof.
An N.C. woman who said she was prosecuted for mistakenly voting while on probation, meanwhile, called for Meadows to face a similar fate.
On March 17, the SBI announced its investigation. That followed a letter from District Attorney Ashley Hornsby-Welch — whose responsibilities include Macon County — to the N.C. Department of Justice recusing herself from the matter because of a campaign contribution she received from Meadows.
More recently, Meadows, a top member of the Conservative Partnership Institute, has stopped speaking at CPI-sponsored statewide Election Integrity Summits. The summits show how to organize “citizen election integrity task forces” to check on people’s voter records to ensure they live where they have registered.
Joel Burgess has lived in WNC for more than 20 years, covering politics, government and other news. He’s written award-winning stories on topics ranging from gerrymandering to police use of force. Got a tip? Contact Burgess at jburgess@citizentimes.com, 828-713-1095 or on Twitter @AVLreporter. Please help support this type of journalism with a subscription to the Citizen Times.
One Million Moms Vs Credit Karma “Sexual Perversion”
Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole:
Credit Karma continues to normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle with its liberal advertising choices. The company’s most recent ad, “Limo Valet,” focuses on a pregnant character (a former limo driver) and her current home life with her lesbian partner.
They are living in cramped quarters, which must change before the birth of their baby. Because the lesbian couple is able to monitor and raise their credit score, they have the means to move into a larger space for the family of three to call home. The commercial ends with the two lesbians sitting on the floor playing with their baby in their new home.
Promoting same-sex relationships has nothing to do with marketing a product. Instead of remaining neutral in the culture war, Credit Karma wants to make it clear where they stand on this controversial topic. 1MM spoke out when the company also aired a commercial featuring two gay men in October 2021.
One Million Moms continues to stand up for biblical truth. Romans 1:26-27 is very clear about this particular type of sexual perversion and sin.
TAKE ACTION: If you agree that this commercial featuring two lesbians who are expecting a baby together is inappropriate, please sign our petition urging Credit Karma to pull its “Limo Valet” ad immediately. And please share this with your friends and family.
The ad doesn’t seem to be on YouTube.
So let’s start with acknowledging that this is mostly a single woman who constantly uses her religious views to attack everything LGBTQ+ and she is constantly online doing it. Her following is far from 1 million. Last I looked it was almost 1 thousand. Not sure what it is now. But the thing is she uses her online platform to ack everything LGBTQ+ as anti-family. We gays or what ever are destroying the good godly set up of god and we need to stop this shit right now. What is the issue, well anything LGBTQ+ is horribly bad and god will extract revenge especially if it is on TV or in public. She at one time had a following, but I now look at her mostly as a joke, except her views are gaining traction among the religious. The religious who want to force their views on how everyone should be have and what our laws in a secular country are about. That scares me.
Monica and her ilk are so disgusting that one of the commenters in a similar skreed of hers complained that commercials are also tying to normalize black people.
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Two Men From Florida’s The Villages To Get Off With Community Service After Admitting Felony Voter Fraud
The Orlando Sentinel reports:
Two residents from The Villages confessed to voter fraud charges after filing two ballots in the 2020 Presidential election, court records show. Charles F. Barnes and Jay Ketcik pleaded guilty to casting more than one ballot in an election, a third-degree felony that could have resulted in a maximum five-year prison sentence.
According to the pre-trial intervention documents, the prosecution of Barnes, 64, and Ketcik, 63, will be deferred if they abide by a series of court-ordered requirements set by the office of Ocala-based State Attorney Bill Gladson.
Court records show the men will avoid further punishment if they regularly meet with a supervising officer, complete 50 hours of community service and attend a 12-week adult civics class, among a handful of other requirements.
Click Orlando reports:
Barnes and Ketcik are among four residents of The Villages who were accused of casting multiple ballots in both Florida and their original home states during the 2020 election.
All four faced a maximum of five years in prison if a jury convicted them of the third-degree felony. Joan Halstead, 71, and John Rider, 61, are still awaiting trial for allegedly casting multiple ballots, court records show. Both have pleaded not guilty.
I am sorry but I don’t understand the light punishments. After all Governor DeathSantis has created his own election police with taxpayer money to go after people who do this. Oh all the people from the Villages that have been charged with voter fraud are Republicans that voted for tRump. Sorry for asking, now I understand.
Crystal Mason wanted to vote but wasn’t sure she could (she was on parole). So, the people manning the voter registration desk told her she could cast a provisional ballot.
She did as instructed by those in charge.
Later, a judge threw her in jail for FIVE years for voting illegally.
Crystal…to the surprise of no one…is black.
But white people knowingly voting illegally?
Slaps on wrists.
This is so enraging.
And her case wasn’t voter fraud. It was mistakenly voting (by provisional ballot [edit] as instructed by election officials) while ineligible, on supervised release.
Compare and contrast with Bruce Bartman, different state, different laws and sentencing guidelines, who knowingly registered his dead mother to vote, and cast an absentee ballot for her for Trump, and only got probation.
A travesty of justice.
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Pamela Moses was sentenced to six years for registering to vote.
The Guardian did a series about these miscarriages of justice to try and get these women exonerated. It’s too bad our American media doesn’t do this anymore.
