Republicans in four states are facing charges after submitting documents to Congress falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election in their states. Investigations are ongoing and more charges could be filed.
Every four years, presidential electors in every state meet on the same day in December to submit electoral ballots to federal authorities so Congress can finalize the results. On that day in 2020, Republicans in seven states signed ballots for Trump even though Joe Biden had won in their states. In five of the states, they claimed to be legitimate electors even though they were not. In the other two, they signed paperwork saying their states’ electoral votes for Trump should be counted only if Biden’s victory was overturned.
