Fake Electors

This year’s primaries have served as a gauge of Republican voters’ enthusiasm for candidates who continue to promote false claims about the 2020 election in a party where a strong majority still believe Democratic President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected

The visit to Saginaw comes as a state investigator recently named him an unindicted co-conspirator in a case against so-called “fake electors” in 2020

Trump and Mark Meadows were among the names that came up during the cross-examination of investigator Howard Shock. Shock's work led to charges of forgery against more than a dozen people

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Former general counsel to the secretary of the Senate testified Tuesday in Lansing District Court during a preliminary hearing for six people facing forgery and other charges for allegedly serving as false electors

Former state GOP chair Laura Cox testified Thursday that she approved another document saying the state’s Republican electors would cast votes for then-President Donald Trump if Michigan’s 2020 election results were overturned

One group of the defendants charged with falsely presenting themselves as Michigan’s electoral college members appeared in Lansing court today.

The preliminary examinations that got underway Wednesday in a Lansing courtroom are expected to provide the fullest glimpse yet at the state’s case.

The motions came after Attorney General Dana Nessel reportedly made comments that the defendants had been “brainwashed” into believing Trump had won the state

The comments made by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel came during a Sept. 18 virtual event in which she called the group of false electors “brainwashed” and said they “genuinely” believed former President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election