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Igor Derysh

Ex-Trump aide may have broken voting law

Former US President Donald Trump ANDY JACOBSOHN/AFP via Getty Images

A former Trump administration official who is now running for Congress in New Hampshire voted in two different states' Republican primaries in 2016, potentially violating federal law, according to the Associated Press.

Matt Mowers, who served as a White House adviser under Trump before landing a senior job at the State Department, voted with an absentee ballot in New Hampshire's pivotal 2016 presidential primary while he was working as the head of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's presidential campaign in the state, according to records obtained by the AP. But after Christie dropped out of the race for the White House, Mowers cast another ballot in the New Jersey Republican primary after re-registering to vote using his parents' address.

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