BREAKING: Michigan's attorney general has filed criminal charges against 16 pro-Trump fake electors. As stevebenen writes, these are the first charges of their kind.
. Each of the GOP defendants has been charged with several felonies, including conspiracy to commit forgery, forgery, conspiracy to commit election law forgery, and election law forgery.
and sent the documents to, among others, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Archivist, as if the documents were legitimate. They were not.of the Republican Party’s headquarters in Lansing for their own ersatz event after the 2020 race. It was at that point when the fake electors allegedly signed their names to multiple certificates stating that they were the “duly elected and qualified electors for president and Vice President of the United States of America for the state of Michigan.
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