Multiple fake electors cooperating in Georgia criminal probe of Trump's efforts to overturn 2020

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Multiple fake electors cooperating in Georgia criminal probe of Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election

By Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, CNN

Updated 6:00 PM ET, Tue May 10, 2022

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, right, in Fulton County, Georgia, on May 2, 2022.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/politics/georgia-trump-investigation-fake-electors-witness-interviews/index.html

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(CNN)Prosecutors in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election have interviewed several individuals who served as fake GOP electors from the state, according to two sources familiar with the ongoing criminal probe.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office appears to be trying to determine whether the pro-Trump electors in Georgia had any knowledge that their actions may have been a component of a broader and potentially illegal plot to pressure election officials and overturn Joe Biden's victory, a source told CNN.

The latest in the investigations and lawsuits involving Donald Trump, his company and the 2020 election

Biden won Georgia by a nearly 12,000-vote margin in 2020, the first Democrat to carry the state in 28 years. Conspiracy theories immediately sprung up around the state's election and baseless claims of fraud have persisted even after three ballot counts confirmed Biden was the winner. Losing the Peach State was a stinging defeat for Trump, who spent months attempting to overturn the results, even pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" the votes needed to swing the state to him -- a call that set off the Atlanta-area criminal investigation.

The pro-Trump electors who have met with prosecutors in Georgia, including the state's Republican Party Chairman David Shafer, were reassured that they are currently considered witnesses, rather than subjects or targets, in the investigation -- a notable distinction that suggests the Atlanta-area district attorney does not view their actions as criminal at this time, two of the sources told CNN.

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[gab13by13]

1. DOJ should have done a parallel investigation,

the fastest road to the White House is through the fake electors.

These fake electors better not be given immunity.

[Hoyt]

2. Don't think they'll need immunity. The fake electors were offered

“if the official Electoral Votes were not recognized.”

The “fake” electors apparently were not disguised as official. They were offered as “if you don’t accept the other electors, here are people we would like to to consider, but we are not the Secretary of State or any other official body.”

Yeah, if the fake electors were sent under official cover — purportedly by the proper officials — we’d have em. They weren’t though.

[dpibel]

3. In some cases

I'm not going to take the time to dig up the details, but my recollection is that there were two states where the "if y'all reject the real electors" dodge was in effect.

Do you have a link to tell me that the Georgia electors were in the small subset?

Thanks.

[dpibel]

4. I lied

I took the time.

The certificates in Pennsylvania and New Mexico hedged by tweaking the language suggesting that they would be the electors if it was later determined they were the electors — for instance, through a final court order.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/jan/28/what-you-need-know-about-fake-trump-electors/

So this has exactly what to do with Georgia?