In the weeks leading up to and following the 2020 election, Michigan was a hotbed of misinformation and efforts to undermine nonpartisan election administration. It was also one of seven states at the center of a pressure campaign directed at state legislators and party officials to convince them to install slates of fake electors. As part of that pressure campaign, in mid-November 2020, Trump invited to the White House Michigan’s then-Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R-Clark Lake) and then-House Speaker Lee Chatfield (R-Levering), who rejected Trump’s overtures and told him they “we were going to follow the law” and that the state legislature would not act to overturn the election results. State and local election officials were also the targets of threats and harassment in the wake of the 2020 election.
In December 2020, groups of Republicans in Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin met and signed fake Electoral College certificates—posing as their state’s duly elected presidential electors—in an attempt to falsely declare Trump won the 2020 presidential election.
The Michigan false electors offered their fake certificate as an official public record, submitting their purported Electoral College votes for Trump to Vice President Mike Pence (in his role as the President of the Senate), the Archivist of the United States, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and the Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. They did so despite a margin of 154,000 votes a series of dismissed or rejected lawsuits, no pending recount, and the state legislature declining to act because of the absence of fraud. Even the location and time information on the forged Electoral College certificate was incorrect, as the fake electors convened secretly in the state GOP’s basement after they were blocked by law enforcement from entering the state capitol.
The fake electors scheme has also been under investigation by officials in other states and the Department of Justice.
Count 1 – Conspiracy to Commit Forgery: The false electors worked together and with other people to forge a certificate of votes with the intent to injure or defraud. This crime is punishable by up to 14 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. MCL § 750.157a and MCL § 750.248.
Counts 2 and 3 – Forgery: The false electors each forged a certificate of votes with the intent to injure or defraud. This crime is punishable by up to 14 years in prison. MCL § 750.248.
Count 4 – Conspiracy to Commit Uttering and Publishing: The false electors worked together and with other people to publicly claim that the forged certificates were real with the intent to injure or defraud. This crime is punishable by up to 14 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. MCL § 750.157a and MCL § 750.249.
Count 5 – Uttering and Publishing: The false electors each publicly claimed that the forged certificates were real with the intent to injure or defraud. This crime is punishable by up to 14 years in prison. MCL § 750.249.
Count 6 – Conspiracy to Commit Election Law Forgery: The false electors worked together and with other people to make, file or publish a false document with the intent to defraud. This crime is punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $1,000 fine. MCL§ 750.157a and MCL § 168.933a.
Counts 7 and 8 – Election Law Forgery: The false electors each made, filed, or otherwise published a false document with the intent to defraud. This crime is punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $1,000 fine. MCL § 168.933a.
81 Million untraceable ballots. That were counted at 4am after every swing state where Trump was leading simultaneously kicked out observers
As always every accusation is a confession. "dems cheated" is just another way to excuse the actual literal cheating and fraud that repub electors committed. https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/resources/michigan-fake-electors/