How Many In Trump's Administration Are Registered To Vote In Multiple States?

Who Is Registered to Vote in Two States? Some in Trump's Inner Circle

President Trump congratulated a senior advisor, Steve Bannon, during a swearing-in ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Sunday.

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Jan. 27, 2017

Since so, a multifariousness of news organizations accept constitute that several members of Mr. Trump's inner circle were registered in more than one state during the election. Several nevertheless are. There is no evidence that any of them voted twice.

Registered in two states

• Steve Bannon, Mr. Trump's strategist, was registered to vote in Florida and New York, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune found.

• Tiffany Trump, Mr. Trump's youngest daughter, was registered in Pennsylvania and New York, NBC News reported.

• Sean Spicer, his press secretary, was registered in both Virginia and Rhode Island, according to The Washington Mail service.

• Jared Kushner, his son-in-police and close adviser, was registered in New York and New Jersey, according to The Washington Post.

• Steven Mnuchin, who is nominated to lead the Treasury Department, was registered in New York and California, CNN found.

And so is this illegal?

Not really.

Have you always moved to a new state? And did you remember the people in charge of voting in your sometime land to tell them to go ahead and accept yous off their list? Probably non. Neither, plainly, did some members of the Trump family and his White Business firm.

"There is cipher illegal well-nigh that," Fred Voigt, the deputy election commissioner for Philadelphia, told Heat Street, the News Corp.-owned conservative and libertarian site, which reported Ms. Trump's double registration. "The illegality only occurs if 1 votes in 2 places, not if you lot're registered in both."

Country authorities regularly purge their voter rolls of people who motion or die.

Mr. Bannon'due south instance is a petty different. A Guardian study last summer constitute that Mr. Bannon was registered at a vacant habitation he had previously rented for his ex-wife, but that he had never lived there himself.

Shortly after that report, the Guardian said, Mr. Bannon changed his registered address to the domicile of a Breitbart writer, also in Florida.

When he voted in November'southward election, he did and then by absentee election in New York, a spokesman for the land Board of Elections confirmed. On Midweek, after widespread news reports of his double registration, Sarasota County removed Mr. Bannon from the rolls, The Herald Tribune reported.

What has the White House said?

Every bit the reports of double registrations grew, Kellyanne Conway, one of Mr. Trump's senior advisers, appeared on NBC's "Today" show on Thursday and denied that members of Mr. Trump's inner circumvolve were registered in more than 1 place.

"I talked concluding night to Tiffany Trump, and she said it is flatly fake that she is registered in two states," she said. Simply NBC had confirmed that Ms. Trump, in fact, was.