LANSING, Mich. — The actions of 16 Republicans who signed a false certificate claiming Donald Trump won Michigan in 2020 deserve a "close look" from law enforcement investigators, a former state elections director said.
Chris Thomas, who served in the role for 36 years under both Democratic and Republican secretaries of state, made the comments Wednesday during a press event for the Defend Democracy Project, a nonprofit. It comes after a U.S. House select committee used a public hearing to examine the efforts of Trump and his supporters in multiple battleground states to reverse the outcome of the November 2020 election.
The so-called "alternative" electors in Michigan falsely claimed that Trump had won the state and signed a certificate on Dec. 14, 2020, that was submitted to the National Archives and the U.S. Senate in an attempt to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's victory.
