Arizona Republican becomes first fake elector to plead guilty for role in Trump scheme
Arizona Republican becomes first fake elector to plead guilty for role in Trump scheme
It’s the second victory for Arizona prosecutors this week in their sweeping case against many Trump allies.
An Arizona Republican who falsely claimed to be a legitimate presidential elector for former President Donald Trump — part of a sweeping effort by Trump and his allies to subvert the 2020 election — has pleaded guilty for her role in the scheme.
Lorraine Pellegrino, one of 11 Arizona Republicans who falsely posed as Trump’s electors that year, accepted a guilty plea to a single charge for filing a “false instrument” — the fraudulent Electoral College certificate. The state charge was one of several she faced for allegedly joining in a conspiracy to corrupt Arizona’s election results.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes charged the 11 fake electors, as well as several top Trump allies, in a broad indictment in April. Trump himself was not charged in the Arizona case, but he was identified by a state grand jury as an unindicted coconspirator. Trump was also charged federally and in Georgia with felonies arising from his fake elector scheme and other efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory.
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It'd be good if they can get the rest of them soon. Hopefully this'll serve as an example to any would be fake electors in the coming election.
I think I have a mix of dyslexia and some kind of hallucinations, because I read that as can’t get to the restroom soon, and I just exploded and laughter.
What a horrible but simple curse to wish on someone, that was how I read it at first too
If anything, it makes scrolling through Lemmy more interesting 😂
They're going to try to go thr Georgia route and just make election certification entirely discretionary. That this will effectively end democracy bothered exactly zero Republican voters.
You know they’re going to fuck this up, the red counties are going to obviously contest the results before they’ve even started counting them and it’s going to make them look really stupid
They've planted people in the right positions in blue counties to keep their votes from being counted.
The voters are idiots. But the evil bastards running the show are not.
If they make election certification discretionary then if doesn't matter how they look. They can legally just not certify for any made up reason. It's how they'll avoid the charges that their fellow chuds in AZ are currently facing.
Yeah, they are actively taking over the board of elections in georgia for this very purpose.