THE SCHEME.....a coordinated effort to convene fraudulent GOP electors in multiple states
The Trump campaign played a role in directing several State GOP's to hold their own elector meetings, describing it at the time as a way to preserve the defeated president’s legal options as he fought doomed court battles to overturn the results.
The Trump campaign lined up supporters to fill elector slots, secured meeting rooms in statehouses for the fake electors to meet and circulated drafts of fake certificates.
Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost. In five of those states — Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia — those electors then signed certificates claiming they were “duly elected and qualified” to represent their states. New Mexico and Pennsylvania also participated.
The evidence points toward a coordinated effort to convene GOP electors in multiple states Trump lost and have them declare themselves authentic electors for that state. The forms the electors used in different locations were nearly identical, from their wording to their fonts.
When those court battles failed, Vice President Mike Pence would introduce the unofficial pro-Trump electors to cast Biden’s victory into doubt the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021.
