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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sam Levine and agencies

Former Trump official voted in two states’ 2016 presidential primaries

Matt Mowers may have violated federal election law by voting in the presidential primaries in two states.
Matt Mowers may have violated federal election law by voting in the presidential primaries in two states. Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP

A former Trump administration official now running for Congress in New Hampshire voted twice during the 2016 primary election season, possibly violating federal voting law and leaving him at odds with the Republican party’s intense focus on “election integrity”.

Matt Mowers, a leading Republican primary candidate hoping to unseat the Democratic representative Chris Pappas, cast an absentee ballot in New Hampshire’s 2016 presidential primary, voting records show. At the time, Mowers served as the director of former New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s presidential campaign in the pivotal early voting state.

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