We are now entering the find out portion of our programming
This is all kinds of awesome:
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday that she has filed charges against 16 people who signed paperwork falsely claiming that President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election as part of a scheme to overturn the results.
U.S. presidents are technically voted in by slates of electors from each state who cast their votes for the candidate selected by their states’ popular vote. In December 2020, as Trump tried to overturn the results of the election, his allies readied alternative slates of electors in several states.
These appear to be the first charges filed against fake electors.
The announcement came the same day Trump said he has been notified that he is the target of an investigation by a Washington-based grand jury examining the Jan. 6 riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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.
Some of the electors attempted to deliver these false documents to the state Senate, but were turned away, she said;the documents were later sent to the U.S. Senate and the National Archives “with the intent that Vice President Pence would overturn the results of the election, using the false electoral slate,” Nessel said.
Nessel said the “false electors” are being charged with eight felony counts each, including forgery.
These people aren’t exactly random crazies either:
The 16 individuals include Michigan GOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock and state Republican National Committeewoman Kathy Berden. Michele Lundgren, who was also charged, previously told local television station WDIV that she thought she was signing an attendance sheet for a meeting.
“I didn’t even know what an elector was, let alone a fake elector,” she told the station.
Maybe you should have paid attention during Schoolhouse Rock, Michele. Because now you’re headed for Big House Rock.
Speaking of which, let’s watch Donovan Edwards run through the the Ohio State defense again:
Basically no Republican believes in consequences (for Republicans). See, e.g., Frank Wilhot’s Dictum.