Even while Hindle and others remain in their roles as elections officials and legislators, state election officials and state and federal courts can provide checks on their authority, said Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. In Nevada, Storey County’s 3,750 active registered voters represent a speck of the state’s electorate.

In that position, he doesn’t directly oversee elections, but can influence legislation on voting and vote-counting. In July, the Michigan Bureau of Elections barred Shelby Township Clerk Stan Grot from running any elections as the state attorney general brought criminal charges against him and 15 other Republicans for their roles as fake electors.īurt Jones, who was a Georgia state senator at the time he was a fake elector, later won a race to become the state’s lieutenant governor.

Michigan is a rare example where a fake elector has lost influence due to charges. DeMarco has often been critical of Trump’s influence on the state party. Despite the subpoenas served to DeMarco and that state’s other GOP electors, they have faced no legal consequences after qualifying their electoral votes as “conditional” in case Trump had prevailed in court. The FBI in 2022 interviewed Sam DeMarco, a member of the three-member election board in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County. That has become especially contentious in the Western swing state where Republicans have been aggressive in trying to overturn or cast doubt on Democratic victories. Hoffman’s position makes him a gatekeeper for virtually all election-related legislation under consideration. The Arizona attorney general is investigating the role of fake electors no one has been charged. Hoffman is chairman of the Senate Elections Committee, and Kern leads the Judiciary Committee. In Arizona, fake electors Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern are Republican legislators with powerful roles. Spindell and the fake electors in Wisconsin agreed to a settlement this month conceding that their actions were “part of an attempt to improperly overturn the 2020 presidential election results.”

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