Bringing it

Michigan’s attorney general on Tuesday criminally charged 16 so-called “fake electors” for former President Donald Trump, accusing them of a fraudulent effort to reverse President Joe Biden’s victory in the state’s 2020 election.

The 16 people each face eight charges, including conspiracy, election law forgery, and uttering and publishing, state Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a video announcement.

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On Dec. 14, 2020, weeks after Biden defeated Trump by more than 154,000 votes in Michigan, the defendants met covertly in the basement of the state GOP headquarters and signed documents claiming to be the legally qualified electors for the state in the Electoral College, according to Nessel.

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

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“Every serious challenge to the election had been denied, dismissed, or otherwise rejected by the time the false electors convened,” Nessel said. “There was no legitimate legal avenue or plausible use of such a document or an alternative slate of electors.”

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After that meeting, “some of the false electors attempted to enter the state Capitol and deliver their fabricated electoral votes to the Senate floor, but were turned away,” she said.

The bogus electoral documents were then sent to the U.S. Senate and the National Archives “with the intent that Vice President Mike Pence would overturn the results of the election using the false electoral slate,” Nessel said.

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The charges announced Tuesday have maximum possible prison sentences of up to 14 years. The defendants have been given a week to surrender on the charges, said Nessel, whose office said the investigation is continuing.

  CNBC

I wonder if they'll get hit by the Feds, too. They should.

Maddock, the co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party was heard on an audio recording at a public event as saying, “We fought to seat the electors. The Trump campaign asked us to do that.”

Oh, reeeeeeeally?

In addition to Michigan, the so-called alternate electors’ slates came from Arizona, Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

I'll be waiting for similar charges.

Last summer, an Atlanta prosecutor told all 16 people who acted as fake electors in Georgia were targets of her criminal probe of Trump and his allies for their attempt to undo Biden’s victory in that state.

At least half of those Georgia fake electors since have reached immunity deals with the prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, according to a court filing in May.

Arizona's AG is conducting a criminal investigation of that state's fake electors. And a judge in Wisconsin recently said a lawsuit against that state's fake electors filed by a couple of Democratic electors and a citizen voter could proceed.

UPDATE 07/20/2023:

UPDATE 07/20/2023:

Shelby Township Clerk Stan Grot must refrain from administering “any and all official duties” while eight felony charges are pending against him for his involvement in a scheme to replace Michigan’s electoral college representatives in 2020.

The Department of State’s Bureau of Elections announced Grot’s removal of duties Thursday via letter.

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He was one of 16 individuals charged earlier this week with a handful of felonies stemming from their attempts to submit an alternate slate of pro-Donald Trump electors in the aftermath of the 2020 election.

  MLive