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Four years ago next week, Trump supporters posing as electors in seven swing states signed and submitted false certificates claiming that the former president had actually won their state. In recent days, many of those fake electors have faced new charges for their efforts to thwart the will of voters and keep Trump in power.
In a legal settlement on Wednesday, the 10 fake electors from Wisconsin formally acknowledged that Joe Biden had won the state and agreed not to serve as presidential electors in 2024 or in any future election in which Trump is on the ballot.
In Nevada, a grand jury on Wednesday indicted the state’s six fake electors. Among them are the chairman and vice president of the Nevada Republican Party, as well as several other high-ranking Republican state officials. Nevada is the third state to press charges against fake electors.
On Friday, CNN reported that Kenneth Chesebro — the Trump attorney who had pleaded guilty in the Georgia case for his role in devising the fake electors scheme — is now cooperating with investigators in Wisconsin and Michigan “in hopes of avoiding more criminal charges.”
American Oversight first obtained copies of the fraudulent electoral certificates — from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — in March 2021. More recently, we obtained emails from early 2021 showing the National Archives and Records Administration alerted officials in several states that the fake certificates had been submitted.
Wisconsin Open Meetings Lawsuit
Last week, a Wisconsin judge granted Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ motion to dismiss the open meetings portion of our lawsuit against Vos and his panel of former state Supreme Court justices — but our public records claims will continue.
EagleAI in Georgia
Last week, Columbia County in Georgia agreed to use software called EagleAI that is being pushed by election deniers as an alternative to the Electronic Registration Center, a nonprofit organization that helps states clean up their voter rolls.