Thirteen Republicans who participated in the 2020 fake electors plot, including some who are facing criminal charges, will cast real Electoral College votes Tuesday for President-elect Donald Trump, as electors in the states finalize his victory.
These Republican activists hail from Pennsylvania, Michigan and Nevada – critical battleground states that Trump carried this year, after losing them all in 2020. Four years ago, they signed fake certificates falsely claiming Trump won. They were picked again by Republicans to be electors this year, and will sign the authentic certificates.
The Electoral College meetings happening Tuesday in each state and Washington, DC, are a formality. The 538 electors will cast ballots for president and vice president as part of the process spelled out in the US Constitution and various federal and state laws….The participation of these fake electors and diehard 2020 election deniers has drawn condemnation from some Democrats and liberal groups. Donald Sherman, chief counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said it was a travesty.
Their role in the 2024 process, Sherman said, “is yet another chilling reminder that, despite the prosecutions of many individuals who stormed the Capitol on January 6, (2021), nearly every federal government institution failed to hold Donald Trump and his allies accountable for illegally attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election.”
In Michigan, the six fake-turned-real electors are former state GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock; Marian Sheridan and Amy Facchinello, who have both been local party officials; John Haggard and Timothy King, who were plaintiffs in a frivolous lawsuit that tried to overturn the state’s 2020 election results; and dairy farmer Hank Choate.