Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks during a news conference in Detroit on Oct. 14, 2021. The false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and protecting future election results loom large over this year’s

Michigan charges 16 fake Trump electors with election law, forgery felonies

By Joey Cappelletti – Associated Press

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks during a news conference in Detroit on Oct. 14, 2021. The false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and protecting future election results loom large over this year’s

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s attorney general filed felony charges Tuesday against 16 Republicans who acted as fake electors for then-President Donald Trump in 2020, accusing them of submitting false certificates confirming they were legitimate electors despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, announced Tuesday that all 16 individuals would get eight criminal charges, including two counts of forgery, which is a 14-year felony. The group includes Republican National Committeewoman Kathy Berden and Meshawn Maddock, former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party.

“It would be malfeasance of the greatest magnitude if my department failed to act here in the face of overwhelming evidence of an organized effort to circumvent the lawfully cast ballots of millions of Michigan voters in a presidential election,” Nessel said in a statement.

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