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Originally Posted by Luciom
Trying to convice state legislatures that they actually had the power to overturn voters, the idea of sending different slates of great electors, that kind of stuff was legal.
Trying to convince Pence to simply disregard voters was legal as well, he wasn't proposing to disregard rules, it's rules which are insane and would have technically allowed states and the senate to actually disregard the outcome of elections.
PS it might be a good time to change those insane rules, at least those that don't require a constitutional amendment to be changed.
I think your belief in what was legal is flawed:
Prosecutions[edit]
Main articles: Georgia election racketeering prosecution, Michigan prosecution of fake electors, and Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (election obstruction case)
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced on July 18, 2023, that she had charged sixteen individuals with eight felony counts each, including forgery and conspiracy, alleging they had knowingly signed certificates of ascertainment falsely claiming they were "duly elected and qualified electors" for Michigan.[96][97] One defendant entered into a cooperation agreement with prosecutors in October 2023 in exchange for charges against him being dropped.[98]
On August 1, 2023, at the request of Jack Smith and the Justice Department, a federal grand jury indicted Trump on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy against rights, obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.[99] The indictment accused Trump of orchestrating a criminal conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election, and identified the fake electors scheme as part of the conspiracy.[100]
On August 15, 2023, Trump and eighteen others were indicted in Georgia. The defendants, who included Trump, Giuliani, Eastman, Meadows, Chesebro, Sidney Powell, David Shafer and Shawn Still among others,[101] were charged with a variety of offenses, many of which related to involvement in the fake electors plot.[102] On October 20, Chesebro pleaded guilty to conspiring to file a false document and was sentenced to five years of probation; he also agreed to testify against the other defendants.[103] Three other defendants (including Powell) also pleaded guilty to charges not relating to the fake electors.
On December 6, 2023, a Clark County, Nevada grand jury indicted six Republican party officials, including the chair of the Nevada Republican Party, on two felony charges each of submitting fraudulent documents to state and local officials.[104]
By December 2023, 24 fake electors had been criminally charged in three states, and Chesebro was "a witness in all of the cases".[105] However, in January 2024, the Attorney General of New Mexico stated that the fake electors couldn't be prosecuted given the laws of that state.[106]