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Mowers defends voting twice in 2 states for President in 2016


Kevin Landrigan, The New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester
Wed, April 6, 2022, 4:07 AM


https://news.yahoo.com/mowers-defend...080700654.html


Apr. 6—Republican primary opponents pounced Tuesday on 1st Congressional District candidate Matt Mowers after voting records showed he voted in two different states during the 2016 presidential primary cycle.

Even 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton weighed in, accusing Mowers, an aide in former President Donald Trump's State Department, of committing voter fraud despite the national GOP's use of that claim as a "flimsy pretense" to restrict voting.

"Republican officials are so determined to transform voter fraud from a flimsy pretense for suppressing votes to an actual phenomenon, they keep committing it themselves," Clinton posted on Twitter.

Election records show Mowers, state director of 2016 presidential candidate Chris Christie's campaign, voted in the New Hampshire primary by absentee ballot in February 2016.

Christie dropped out a day after his disappointing sixth-place finish here.

Mowers left the state and returned to his native New Jersey, gave his parents' address to register to vote there in March and then voted for Donald Trump in New Jersey's presidential primary on June 7.