Astonishing and shocking 2020 election fraud from five
GOP-run states who sent Electoral College certifications changing the final
state EC vote from Biden-Harris to Trump-Pence. This story has been widely
reported across major networks like here from
Rolling Stone with their headline:
“Swing State Trumpers Forged Electoral
Letters in Harebrained Scheme to Overturn Biden’s Win”
Groups
from at least five states sent forged elector documents.
Pro-Trump groups in at least five states sent the government forged certificates of ascertainment declaring Trump the recipient of the state’s 2020 electors.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported on the falsified documents noting that the fake certifications, which were obtained by watchdog group American Oversight, have “almost the exact same wording to the real documents.”
Maddow's report is also here (3-minute video):
Rachel Maddow said: “They sent them into the government as if they were real documents. They actually created these fake documents purporting to be the real certifications of them as electors. They all match, exactly. Same formatting, same font, same spacing, almost the exact same wording. All of them.”
Maddow added that: “Politico reported on Monday (January 10) that AZ and MI attempted to fool the National Archives by sending forged certificates of ascertainment declaring Trump the recipient of the state’s 2020 electors, and that the January 6 Select Committee now has those fake certificates, thanks to the secretaries of State for both swing states.”
The National Archives shared the forged documents with state officials, informing them it would not accept the fakes.
State official representatives declined to comment on the
documents. but did confirm that MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and AZ Secretary
of State Katie Hobbs, and their staffs met with the January 6 Select Committee back
in November.
A spokesperson for Hobbs told Politico, while a
representative for Benson said the secretary of State discussed the election as
well as the days before January 6 this: “They mostly discussed election
administration in Arizona, the 2020 elections, threats/harassment directed
toward the office, and the Cyber Ninja’s partisan ballot review.”
The forged documents sent in the wake of the election, which
were obtained through a public records request, purport to show all of both
state’s electors, 16 in MI and 11 in AZ where shows EC votes cast for
Trump-Pence and not Biden-Harris.
The Arizona group that sent the forgery, called “AZ Protect the Vote,” is a sovereign citizen group.
Because their letter included the state seal, the state sought legal action, referring the case to the AG and writing a cease and desist letter instructing the group to stop using the insignia.
Lori Osiecki, who
leads the group, told the Arizona Republic newspaper in December that a
meeting with Rudy Giuliani helped convince her to send the forgery.
The Michigan group did not
use the state seal.
Politico noted in its piece that the January 6 committee is looking into state-level efforts to overturn the election. The forged certificates of ascertainment are among thousands of records state officials have turned over to the committee.
Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson
(D-MS) said: “We want to let the public see and hear from those individuals who
conducted elections in those states.”
My 2 Cents: I stand by the excellent Rachel Maddow reporting – everyone should, too. This involves very serious state and Federal crimes.
There are serious repercussions for those involved vis-à-vis the January 6 Select Committee inquiry as well.
Thus, this story will be tracked for updates accordingly.
Thanks for stopping by.
This
post has been updated following Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC report on Tuesday (January
11) when the state count was two, then changed to three, and now to the five
listed above.
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