This headline is actually erroneous (I would tag @washingtonpost if I thought they were listening). The people indicted were not “pro-Trump electors”; they weren’t electors at all. They were pro-Trump people falsely pretending to be electors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/06/nevada-fake-electors-indictment-trump/
@JamesGleick @washingtonpost I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what they did wrong; weren't they just being ready in case Trump's hail mary lawsuits or whatever worked? Did they commit perjury or something in doing so; is that the problem?
It feels like an example of the broader theme of describing things that obviously have 0 chance of illegally effecting a coup or something as conspiracies, instead of a more, shall we say, parsimonious explanation. As if you can sort of sneak into the "electoral college" and vote for the wrong person and have that work somehow. 😂
@ech @JamesGleick @washingtonpost That waa Pennsylvania. In Nevada (my home state) these people submitted certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election. They're charged with offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument. Those two categories of felonies have penalties that range from one year up to either four or five years in prison.