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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDozens of Trump's fake electors hold powerful jobs in GOP politics - including as elections official
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They were part of an effort across battleground states to upend the 2020 presidential election results, signing documents asserting they were their states rightful electors and Donald Trump not Joe Biden was the victor.
Today, the U.S. Justice Department is circling these fake electors. The FBI has visited many of their homes delivering grand jury subpoenas and, in at least one case, seizing a cellphone, a source familiar with the investigation confirmed to NBC News. And the Jan. 6 Select Committee has compelled many of them to testify, arguing they were an integral part of a broader scheme cooked up by some of Trumps closest confidants to overturn the election.
Law enforcement activity has not pushed these false electors from their political perches.
Instead, with just two months until the midterms, more than two dozen of the individuals who served as phony electors still hold some of the highest-ranking political posts in their state parties. Theyre also interwoven into the GOP infrastructure across seven battleground states that will determine the balance of Congress in November and the next presidential race two years later, according to a review by NBC News.
At issue is the attempt by Republicans in seven battleground states that Biden won in 2020 Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to offer phony slates of 84 Republicans most of whom signed certificates declaring themselves the duly elected electors from their states. The problem: There were official, state-certified electors for Biden whose votes were sent to Congress to be counted as part of the verification of presidential election results.
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Dozens of Trump's fake electors hold powerful jobs in GOP politics - including as elections official (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2022
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WTF are these people NOT in jail?!?! They are MINIMUM should be charged with attempt to defraud
uponit7771
Sep 2022
#2
Couy Griffin was removed from office. These fake electors should be charged, NOW.
Hermit-The-Prog
Sep 2022
#3
live love laugh
(13,095 posts)1. And in November probably more like them waiting in the wings.
uponit7771
(90,329 posts)2. WTF are these people NOT in jail?!?! They are MINIMUM should be charged with attempt to defraud
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,309 posts)3. Couy Griffin was removed from office. These fake electors should be charged, NOW.
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against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
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