“So it really was a fraudulent claim...”
The claim may not have had aqequate legal merit at a particular time or place where that would have been necessary.
But by no means does that necessarily render it “fraudulent”.
You concede waaaaay too much.
Except that only the Governor can certify the electors. Anything else would be a fraudulent claim under law. If you or I start creating our own election certification documents, and then submit them as authentic, we would be committing fraud.
It is pretty literally fraudulent though. The lawyer for the PA Republican electors clearly saw the problem, and added language that protected them.
What ended up happening in AZ and few other states was knowingly, fraudulently, they submitted their certificate of ascertainment. They did it so Pence could say, there are two sets of votes, we can’t count the votes for Biden.
>The claim may not have had aqequate legal merit at a particular time or place where that would have been necessary.<
A question for the judge and jury:
These guys signed a lawsuit claiming a fraudulent election. A judge said NO so they lost the case. They are now being charged for bringing the lawsuit.
If they win can the people charging them now also be indicted for falsely claiming they were fraudulent?
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It is astounding to me that, after decades of blatant in-your-face election fraud and theft by Democrats, that it seems every time I see a headline re someone being charged with election fraud the “suspects” are somehow always REPUBLICANS.