Answer: (do we have to do that here?) the fake electors would have replaced people in the electoral college. These are the people who actually elect a president. When you vote for president, you’re voting for someone in the electoral college who pledged to vote for that person.
But what if a state could override your vote and put in different people in the electoral college? That’s the fake elector plan. They said they were the real electors, when they were not.
Who is they in this situation? Is it the fake electors themselves? The state governor? The state legislature?
Is the electoral college like an actual place in Washington where electors gather together and vote for president? Did a bunch of people just show up and say “Oh yeah, we are the electors from Michigan” and everyone just believed them? Is there no way to verify who is the official elector because this has never happened before? Or did this happen not in Washington but somewhere else?
A group of people in Michigan is the They in the recent story. Several other groups also did it in other states. Basically, they pretended that they were the electors and signed document designed to look like the official document in order to cause confusion for long enough to delay. It was a stall tactic.
Answer: (do we have to do that here?) the fake electors would have replaced people in the electoral college. These are the people who actually elect a president. When you vote for president, you’re voting for someone in the electoral college who pledged to vote for that person.
But what if a state could override your vote and put in different people in the electoral college? That’s the fake elector plan. They said they were the real electors, when they were not.
Who is they in this situation? Is it the fake electors themselves? The state governor? The state legislature?
Is the electoral college like an actual place in Washington where electors gather together and vote for president? Did a bunch of people just show up and say “Oh yeah, we are the electors from Michigan” and everyone just believed them? Is there no way to verify who is the official elector because this has never happened before? Or did this happen not in Washington but somewhere else?
A group of people in Michigan is the They in the recent story. Several other groups also did it in other states. Basically, they pretended that they were the electors and signed document designed to look like the official document in order to cause confusion for long enough to delay. It was a stall tactic.