All posts tagged "False Electors"

Not everyone understands the importance of the recent Michigan fake elector case, according to a former federal prosecutor.

Renato Mariotti said Tuesday the Michigan AG’s charges against fake electors "are more important than you might realize."

"Our electoral system is run at the state level, and as we saw in the last election, there is room for bad actors to get to subvert the process," the lawyer wrote. "These charges will be a real deterrent."...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Tuesday that her office has filed charges against 16 “fake electors” on allegations they signed paperwork falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the state’s election that was part of a broader effort to overturn the results, NBC News reports.

Jane C. Timm writes for NBC News that the “16 people being charged in Michigan allegedly met in the basement of the state's Republican Party headquarters and signed multiple certificates claiming they were the duly elected and qualified electors for president and vice president of the United States of America for the state of Michigan, Nessel said in recorded remarks."

“That was a lie. They weren’t the duly elected and qualified electors, and each of the defendants knew it,” she continued....