No way a Trump administration official could have done something like this! Well, maybe, since he was removed from the North Carolina voter rolls this week under allegations that he registered to vote using an address where he never lived…
@MikeF: providing a link to a news story about your topic is always a good idea.
Like so:
From the article:
Duly noted…
Unless this was a fancy motor home then, given that it’s in “Scaly Mountain” and there isn’t any report of a vote being cast under his name in the state, I have a feeling like this might have been a prank by someone who was able to succesfully get on the voter roll as him but thought they could go in and vote as Meadows, as well, just to discover that they couldn’t.
And the whole serving in Congress representing North Carolina was probably also just a prank, right?
Wait … a Democratic AG launched the investigation? Witchhunt!
Nonsense! There are no witches in North Carolina!
It’s as good an explanation as any, I suppose.
This seems to do a pretty thorough deep dive on the topic:
The short answer would seem to be that he had sold his old place, hadn’t bought his new place yet, and that was where his family was staying at the time, so he considered it as close to an official address as he could have had at the time. (I would guess that he was living in a hotel somewhere in DC.)
Not a prank, but it does seem like the gods are teasing when they put the guy in Scaly Mountain and he owns property in Transylvania County.
Surely, even he”s not dumb enough to think that a single vote in another state would make any difference at all. Now, if we find a few thousand more Meadows addresses, then we have a story. I hear property taxes are a bitch with that strategy, though. 
The article says his wife stayed there for a night. It wasn’t temporary housing while they looked for a new place.
They had effectively sold their home and moved to DC/NOVA. They weren’t between houses in NC. This is truly bizarre.
North Carolina says that Meadows voted in the 2021 Virginia elections, which results in automatic removal from the NC rolls per state law. If he’s claiming to be a NC resident, explaining the Virginia vote could be tricky.
Never mind
If that night happens to be the day that the thing was sent then it seems fair enough, at that moment.
If you’re between homes and living separate from your family, and the question is your current address - I’m not sure that there’s really any satisfactory answer to give.
I’ve had to give my hotel as an address at times in my life history. I wasn’t in desperate times or anything, it was just a strange moment and I had a form to fill out. Things happen.
But registering to vote isn’t a thing you can only do on April 20th. He was in the process of moving to NoVa. He should have registered there.
When you’re busy and have other things to focus on, don’t want to forget to do it, you’re following the law, and you might be registering for the eventually correct location…why not?
Seriously? He lived in a different state at the time.
How about we extend the same charity and forgiveness to everyone? No? Better to pass 10,000 laws across the nation.
A little more detail on what appears to have happened, from this NBC News article:
If accurate, then it appears that Meadows used that Scaly Mountain address as part of registering to vote in North Carolina, and that, by the time he registered to vote, the property had been sold to someone other than the person from whom they had rented it.
It does seem like he (and/or his wife) briefly rented the property as a fig leaf to vote in NC in 2020. This’d be a tempest in a teapot, save for the fact that, as also noted in the article:
Even if there is an innocent and legitimate explanation for all of this, the story broke 24 hours ago, and, AFAICT, Meadows has remained silent on it.
I think he should get the treatment of this Texas woman (five year sentence for a vote that was never even counted):