LANSING, Mich. – Before the abandoned federal attempt to prosecute Donald Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss , state and local prosecutors brought cases against his fake electors.

The term referred to the people who, in several of the swing states won by former President Joe Biden, declared themselves to be the rightful electors who would vote for Trump in the Electoral College. It was part of Trump's long-shot bid to push Congress to reject Biden's electors and throw the election to him.

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Democratic prosecutors filed indictments against them before Trump himself was charged by a special prosecutor appointed by Biden's Department of Justice, making the fake electors the most prominent example of how those who helped Trump faced consequence

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