Re: 22 - they were not declaring themselves as alternate electors. They were representing themselves as lawfully selected electors. They were not, as they were not the electors designated as a result of the Michigan State Board of Canvassers certification of the election.
Read 19 of the complaint. They asserted they were the duly elected and qualified electors for the State of Michigan. They were not.
Hawaii (1960) alternate election slates
The quote I cited at the bottom is worth repeating here:
Rather than suggest the Democratic electors committed fraud, the judge pointed to their meeting as a key step that preserved their ability to be counted after the recount showed Kennedy had actually won the state. Jamieson also reportedly threw out an effort by the GOP electors to scrap the entire election because of fraud allegations.
I'd also point out that there were actually THREE different slates of electors (2 Democrat, 1 Republican) submitted to Congress from the state of Hawaii for the 1961 joint session of Congress.
These leftist Democratic prosecutors filed these stupid criminal charges in Michigan because they know there a millions of semi-retarded morons across America -- including some right here on Free Republic -- who are so gullible, and completely ignorant of history, that they'll believe anything they read in the media.