LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general is asking federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into 16 Republicans who submitted false certificates stating they were the state’s presidential electors despite Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in 2020.
Summary
- ADVERTISEMENTNessel alleged a “coordinated effort” among Republican parties in several battleground states including Michigan to push so-called alternate slates of electors with fake documents.
- New Mexico and Pennsylvania Republicans added a caveat saying it was done in case they were later recognized as duly elected, qualified electors.
- There are complaints pending in Wisconsin alleging that GOP electors in that swing state committed fraud by submitting the false paperwork.
- Another complaint against Andrew Hitt, an attorney who was chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party at the time, has been filed with the agency that handles complaints against lawyers.
- In Pennsylvania, Trump electors signed the documents in an office of a Republican marketing consultant two blocks from the state Capitol.