Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Tuesday charged 16 “fake electors” with multiple felonies related to a plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the Great Lakes State.
Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Tuesday charged 16 “fake electors” with multiple felonies related to a plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the Great Lakes State.
Nessel alleges that the 16 residents signed certificates on Dec. 14, 2020, falsely claiming that they were the rightful electors and that President Donald Trump won Michigan in the 2020 presidential election.
The group then attempted to deliver the certificates to the Michigan Capitol in Lansing., while real electors met inside the statehouse.
“That was a lie,” Nessel said in a video announcing the charges.
“They weren’t the duly elected and qualified electors, and each of the defendants knew it,” she added. “They carried out these actions with the hope and belief that the electoral votes of Michigan’s 2020 election would be awarded to the candidate of their choosing, instead of the candidate that Michigan voters actually chose.
