A Michigan state judge on Tuesday dismissed charges against the fake electors who signed certificates falsely claiming President Donald Trump won Michigan in the 2020 election, saying that the state failed to prove the 15 men and women were knowingly trying to break the law.

The group includes current and former state GOP officials, a Republican National Committee member, a mayor, a school board member and Trump supporters who were the plaintiffs in a frivolous lawsuit that tried to overturn the 2020 results. Each was facing eight charges.

“This is a fraud case, and we have to approve intent, and I don’t believe that there’s evidence sufficient to prove intent,” Judge Kristen Simmons said from the bench Tuesday in her Lansing courtroom.

The ruling ends the criminal prosecutions, which

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