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Alice Herman

Fury at Michigan officials charged in 2020 false electors scheme: ‘This isn’t who we are’

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks during a news conference, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, outside of the Genesee County Sheriff's Office in Flint, Mich.
Michigan’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, charged 16 Republicans for participating in an alleged false electors plot to help Donald Trump win re-election in 2020. Photograph: Jake May/AP

When the news broke in 2020 that 16 Republicans in Michigan had signed a certificate falsely claiming to be electors for Donald Trump, Rosemary Herweyer was dismayed to find a prominent local politician, Kent Vanderwood, listed among the signatories.

“His willingness to sign a fake elector paper and try to send that in and negate Michigan’s actual vote speaks to his integrity,” Herweyer said of Vanderwood, who was then a member of the Wyoming, Michigan, city council. “How can I trust anything he does?”

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