Dozens of local Republican Party officials, four current contenders for public office, six current officeholders, and at least five former state and federal officeholders are among the 84 individuals who signed fraudulent paperwork saying Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election.
Allegedly, groups from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin gathered in December 2020 and submitted lists of so-called alternate electors to the National Archives following the 2020 presidential election.
The FBI and the Department of Justice are apparently investigating the plan and have issued subpoenas to numerous participants.
The plot is also the centre of House select committee hearings on the January 6 Capitol uprising and Republican attempts to alter the election results.
Rep. Adam Schiff detailed during a recent committee hearing how Trump and his campaign were personally involved in the plot to replace Joe Biden’s genuine electors.
They persuaded people to sign contracts that would be utilized if Trump prevailed in litigation, but maintained the plan regardless, even as the campaign lost repeatedly in court and top advisers and attorneys withdrew from participation.
Schiff also presented text exchanges indicating that Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson likely participated in the plan.
Texts revealed that Johnson’s chief of staff sought to orchestrate the transfer of a list of fictitious electors to former Vice President Mike Pence. Johnson first denied any involvement, but then admitted he was included in a scheme-related email chain.
Despite the growing focus on the bogus electors in Washington, the vast bulk of those involved in the fraud has thus far evaded scrutiny.
States Newsroom published a comprehensive list of bogus electors in January. Since then, as the inquiry has intensified, the relevant parties have run in primaries, been subpoenaed, resigned from their jobs, or begun new ones.
At least three current candidates for office have been added to the list of phoney electors, including Burt Jones, who won the Republican primary for lieutenant governor in Georgia and will appear on the November ballot, and Jim Lamon, an Arizona candidate for the U.S. Senate.
The slate also has four individuals who have lost elections since signing their names as fictitious voters.
Lou Barletta and Charlie Gerow both ran for Pennsylvania governor in the May Republican primary but lost. Kelly Ruh was a De Pere, Wisconsin alderman until recently, however, she lost reelection in April.
Robert Spindell Jr., a member of the Wisconsin Election Commission, was unsuccessful in his bid to become the commission’s chairman.
There are also seven incumbents in the group:
Jake Hoffman, a representative for Arizona
But Jones is a state senator in Georgia.
Michigan’s Shelby Township clerk Stanley Grot
Amy Facchinello, a member of the Grand Blanc, Michigan school board
Robert Spindell Jr. is a Wisconsin Election Commission member.
Josephine Ferro is the Pennsylvania Register of Wills for Monroe County.
Sam DeMarco III is an at-large council member for Allegheny County in Pennsylvania.
In addition to the chair, former chair, or co-chair of the state Republican Party in each of the seven states, the group consists of individuals who are no strangers to political controversy and investigations:
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Michael Ward of Arizona has been accused of spitting in the eye of a former Kelli Ward campaign volunteer.
Tom Carroll of Pennsylvania was accused by a Black coworker of committing a racist act by leaving a plush monkey on her desk while serving as an assistant district attorney.
Gloria Kay Godwin of Georgia has been charged with stalking after allegedly interfering with a citizen’s attempt to collect signatures for a recall election petition.
The House Select Committee reported on January 6 that it had summoned 14 of the fraudulent electors who, according to committee chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss. ), may have information about how they met and who was behind the plan.
Each of the fourteen functioned as “chairman” or “secretary” of the state lists of fictitious electors.
