Probably could go in the 2024 election shenanigans thread too, but it's on the record now--title is link:
Arizona Republican becomes first fake elector to plead guilty for role in Trump scheme
Lorraine Pellegrino, one of 11 Arizona Republicans who falsely posed as Trump’s electors that year, accepted a guilty plea to a single charge for filing a “false instrument” — the fraudulent Electoral College certificate. The state charge was one of several she faced for allegedly joining in a conspiracy to corrupt Arizona’s election results.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes charged the 11 fake electors, as well as several top Trump allies, in a broad indictment in April. Trump himself was not charged in the Arizona case, but he was identified by a state grand jury as an unindicted coconspirator. Trump was also charged federally and in Georgia with felonies arising from his fake elector scheme and other efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory.
Pellegrino’s plea deal is the second victory in the Arizona case in as many days for Mayes, a Democrat. Another one of the 18 defendants, former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis, began cooperating with prosecutors this week in exchange for a deal to dismiss the charges she faced. Ellis similarly cooperated with prosecutors last year in the Georgia case....
After his defeat at the polls in 2020, Trump’s lawyers hatched a plan to convene their own sets of presidential electors in some states where Biden was the certified victor. Initially, the attorneys said the so-called contingent electors were meant as placeholders in case Trump prevailed in any of his lawsuits to overturn the election results.
Trump allies, like Ellis and Rudy Giuliani, also began leaning on Republican state legislatures to certify the Trump electors in order to stoke further proceedings and legal battles. As those efforts faltered, Trump eventually eyed an even more desperate plan: Use the existence of the false slates of electors to foment a controversy on Jan. 6, 2021, the day Congress and then-Vice President Mike Pence were charged with certifying the election results.
Pence refused to accede to the plan, drawing Trump’s fury and ultimately the wrath of a pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol and derailed the electoral vote count for hours that day, threatening the transfer of power.
My question is this--if this former plan already exists and there are cases still being held resulting from this broken plan to defraud American voters and Democracy, how could Trump try and pull it off again? Wouldn't it be pretty obvious to the point that everybody is looking at Trump wondering when he was going to start the proceedings to defraud the next election?
And my second thought is--I'm glad that someone like Walz is the VP because he's ex military and maybe can deal with this crisis from the military side of things.
Lastly, can't the judges and all the phony actors be called out in advance as in, we know what's actively in play, so we're going to need to verify everything with an independent lens or more eyes than just your political installations? Also, we need to see the lists of people purged from voter rolls to see if the purge is by party? I mean if a polling place requires a member from both parties to oversee voting, shouldn't this also be required from purging rolls and other election activities?