Posted on 05/12/2024 3:11:48 AM PDT by RandFan
What was their criminal intent?
And what was their intent?
Criminal intent - they fraudulently claimed they were the certified electors from the state of Arizona. Only the Legislature can certify electors - and they did not certify these electors.
They had no intention of committing any crimes. Whose side are you on anyway?
I believe there was criminal intent based on the steps they took to conceal what they were doing.
And whose side? Good grief. I’m on the side of not using hare-brained schemes.
They submitted the alternate slate of electors in case Congress refused to accept certain states electors because of the possibility of fraud in a state.
If they had thrown out a state’s electors that risked that state not having a say in the electoral college electing the president. The alternate slate of electors would have protected a state from that.
They openly submitted them to Congress; it was no secret scheme. Would a car thief go to the motor vehicle dept and try and submit an alternate registration KNOWING there is already a registration on file, and openly admitting it to the clerk?
That was the only reason they did it. There is/was no criminal intent.
I still do not understand what crime or crimes these so-called “fake electors” are alleged to have committed.
Every losing Presidential candidate will have appointed Elector-candidates who would, had he won, have received certificates of ascertainment and who then would have voted on December 14, 2020 in their State capitals for their candidate.
So, between November 8 and December 14, there certainly were would-be Trump Electors in every State that Biden won, waiting for instructions from their State Legislatures.
What did these people actually DO? Did they forge certificates of ascertainment and send fake electoral votes to the President of the Senate?
Uttering an opinion that they were rightfully appointed Electors certainly wouldn’t be a crime, right?
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