According to a court document filed on Friday, eight alleged fake electors who attempted to vote for former President Donald Trump in 2020 instead of Joe Biden accepted immunity agreements from the authorities looking into the scheme.
The Georgia investigation’s development comes as local prosecutors continue to look into a number of issues, including election fraud, the role of electors in casting phony Trump ballots, the former president and his allies, and the former president.
Although the grand jury’s decision to indict is still uncertain, Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis stated that potential criminal indictments from the investigation could occur between July 11 and September 1. Regardless, she requested “heightened security and preparedness” during that time.
After the 2020 presidential election, when it became clear Trump had lost the election and Joe Biden would become president, the now-ex-president and his allies allegedly devised a plan to use slates of alleged fake electors in battleground states to overturn the 2020 election.
The plan, based on a debunked legal theory, relied on key states to find Trump-supporting electors and on former Vice President Mike Pence to toss out the real electors. Pence penned a letter Jan. 6 on the debate over the objections, which said his “oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.”
