About those fake electors
In both Georgia and Arizona, Democrat officials attempted to turn a standard political process into a felony.
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In both Georgia and Arizona, Democrat officials attempted to turn a standard political process (choosing alternate electors in case a close, challenged presidential election goes the other way on recount) into a felony. Partisans attacked these alternate electors as “fake electors” and insurrectionists, and they had their careers, reputations and finances destroyed simply because they agreed to what they thought was a civic duty. This political jihad was justified by the Democrats as “protecting democracy,” when it was actually an attempt to terrify Republicans into never questioning an election that Democrats won.
But there’s good news: The case against the Republican alternate electors in Arizona appears to be cratering for the same reason that the one in Georgia did: not due to justice but prosecutorial incompetence.
A judge in Arizona just sent the case back to the grand jury after discovering that prosecutors failed to provide the grand jury with the text of the 1887 Electoral Count Act, a federal law that’s key to the Republican electors’ defense. This is yet another in a series of acts cited by the defendants in arguing that the prosecution violates the state’s anti-SLAPP law, which bars vindictive, politically-motivated prosecutions. More details here:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/democrat-arizona-ag-kris-mayes-alternate-trump-electors-3/
Ironically, in defending herself against charges that she slow-walked this until just before the 2024 election as a warning to Republicans not to challenge the results, Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes claimed that her office was just taking plenty of time to conduct “a thorough and professional investigation.” Apparently, this kind of partisanship and incompetence is as thorough and professional as you can expect when you elect a Democrat attorney general.