The month after the presidential election in 2020, Democratic and Republican electors representing the candidate who won the popular vote in their states gathered across the country to formally cast electoral votes for president.

But in seven states that Joe Biden won, Republican electors got together anyway and cast phony votes for Donald Trump. They’ve become known as fake electors. And according to federal prosecutors, they were part of a plan to overturn the election, orchestrated by pro-Trump attorneys with Trump’s support. State criminal charges have been filed against fake electors in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada.

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    23 days ago

    Was it just me, or was this “interview” impossible to read? Was this written or transcribed by AI?

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      Yeah, it looks like they transcribed both the interview AND the video clips spliced in-between interview questions. In a video world, that flows smoothly because you can see when there is a change in scene. In text, though, it’s just a weird change in font that doesn’t really pull you out of the interview mode.