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Kira Lerner

A physician, a lawyer, a CEO: the 84 fake electors who allegedly tried to steal the 2020 election

Crowd of people with one young women holding red and white sign that says Stop the Steal.
Donald Trump supporters at the supreme court in Washington DC, on 14 November 2020. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

With the indictment announced in Arizona this week, 36 out of 84 people who signed certificates falsely alleging they were electors for Donald Trump have now been criminally charged.

Kris Mayes is the third state attorney general to indict part of the slate of people who signed the false documents with plans to turn them over to Mike Pence, the US vice-president, to steal the election from Joe Biden. Attorneys general in Michigan and Nevada have also brought charges, and in Wisconsin, fake electors face a civil lawsuit.

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