Posted on 05/12/2024 3:11:48 AM PDT by RandFan
Eighty-four Republicans in seven states falsely claimed to be Donald Trump’s presidential electors in December 2020. Three and a half years later, dozens of them are facing criminal charges that could land them in prison for years.
Dozens of others have not been charged at all.
Even though the fake electors all participated in the same scheme, some have been charged as dangerous criminals while others have been treated as mere dupes. These disparities depend almost entirely on where they live.
In Arizona, Michigan and Nevada, every fake elector is facing felony charges except one, whose charges were dropped in a cooperation deal. Their counterparts in New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin aren’t facing any charges. And in Georgia, three fake electors have been charged alongside Donald Trump, while others struck immunity deals.
Meanwhile, an architect of the scheme across all seven states, Wisconsin lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, has only received what some experts call a slap on the wrist after he reached a plea deal in Georgia, and he hasn’t been charged in any other state. The attorneys general in Georgia and Arizona are the only state prosecutors to charge any of the alleged organizers of the scheme. At the federal level, special counsel Jack Smith cited Trump’s involvement in the fake electors’ project in his Washington, D.C., case against him.
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Nixon and Kennedy both had slates of electors. Originally Nixon was declared the winner but after a recount Kennedy was declared the winner. No “fake elector” charges were brought. All the reporting on this focuses on whether the recount was finished or not, whether it happened under a full moon, etc. to say the Hawaii situation was “different”.
re-try link
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/hi/hawaii/news/2023/09/08/can-1960-hawaii-election-get-ga—false-electors-off-the-hook-
there is a hyphen at the end of the link which has to be added manually, sorry
still can’t find “fake” as one of the definitions of “Alternate”.
“In Hawaii in 1960, there was a legitimate debate about who had won… and that was just not the case in Georgia.”
So the difference is that now the Democrats have unilateral absolute power to declare what constitutes a “legitimate” debate, while they mail millions of un-requested absentee ballots all over the country because “Covid”.
How about: “Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney are unrepentant liars.”?
No bias there!
?fake news on fake electors?
Where is the Supreme Court? The world wonders….
How many times does this story use the words “fake” and “scheme” instead of “alternate” and “plan”?
Here’s the writer, just fyi. A conservative raising and she started riding a libtard. Now she’s a libtard and started writing for lib rags. And when stress started writing as at national review in 2012 as a William F Buckley intern… she was 22. Pays to know. You think you are reading important news from a professional. But it’s often a just an idiot girl fresh out of college.
“Swan was born in Columbia, Missouri. She graduated with a BA in English from Hillsdale College in 2012.[3]
Swan started her career as a reporter and William F. Buckley Fellow at National Review.[4] Amid a wider staff exodus from National Review in 2014, Swan moved after two years to the Washington Examiner to become a political writer covering Capitol Hill and electoral politics.[5] Swan joined the news magazine Slate as a national political reporter in late 2014.[6][unreliable source?][7] She then became a national political reporter for The Daily Beast in March 2015, covering federal law enforcement.[8][9] Swan has appeared on Fox News and CNN and is a contributor to MSNBC.[10][11] On March 4, 2020, Swan announced she would be leaving The Daily Beast and had been hired at Politico.[1]
Swan married Axios reporter Jonathan Swan on September 14, 2019.[12] They have one child.[13]”
If alternate electors claimed via the documents they signed and sent to Washington that they were the duly authorized electors for the state then they were in the wrong and they will get thumped.
Note that the attorney for Cheseboro claims that alternate electors in states like Arizona went beyond what was recommended when they claimed they were the duly certified electors for the state.
I don’t understand the alleged crime. Was there any intent to defraud? Any real possibility that the alternates could have been chosen when they were not legally entitled to be chosen? Or were the alternates just inartfully saying something like, “choose us if the other slate is properly found ineligible due to election fraud”?
spineless chief justice roberts is too busy enjoying the spectacle.
The template for this should be 1876. Unless you have Congress determine that a state’s votes were incorrectly counted, there can be no such thing as “fake” electors, only “alternates.” And even then, Congress did not call the slates “fake,” only replaced them with others the majority thought was just.
Tells you which states have been fully captured by the democrat party Commies.
Where is the criminal intent?
Did they represent themselves as the duly certified electors of the State of Arizona?
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