The stories of the fake electors was reported over a year ago and discussed here at DU

[Kaleva]

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"Attorney Ian Northon, special counsel for The Amistad Project of the conservative Thomas More Society, was with a group of Republican state lawmakers that failed to escort 16 GOP electors into the Michigan Capitol building Monday. Electors of president and vice-president are required by state law to convene in the Senate chamber at 2 p.m. on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December following their election.

Northon said Republican electors sent alternative documents to Congress in case the state Legislature decides to replace Democratic electors. House Speaker Lee Chatfiled, R-Levering, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, said they have no interest in replacing electors after facing pressure from Trump supporters during the last month."

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/12/michigan-republicans-who-cast-electoral-votes-for-trump-have-no-chance-of-changing-electoral-college-result.html

"ELECTION 2020|Dec 14, 2020,11:31am EST|60,045 views
Trump Campaign Assembling Alternate Electors In Key States In Far-Fetched Attempt To Overturn Election

Alison Durkee

Updated Dec 14, 2020, 03:22pm EST
TOPLINE In an unprecedented move, groups of self-styled “electors” arranged by the Trump campaign in battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden will meet Monday to vote for President Trump and send results claiming he won the states’ presidential elections to Congress, White House advisor Stephen Miller said Monday, the latest of the president’s far-fetched attempts to challenge Biden’s victory—which, like his previous efforts, is almost entirely certain to fail."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/12/14/trump-campaign-assembling-alternate-electors-in-key-states-in-far-fetched-attempt-to-overturn-election/?sh=7f53e213213a

"Posted: Dec 14, 2020 / 04:22 PM PST / Updated: Dec 14, 2020 / 11:37 PM PST

"I-Team: Nevada Republican electors cast symbolic, meritless votes for President Trump

by: David Charns

Posted: Dec 14, 2020 / 04:22 PM PST / Updated: Dec 14, 2020 / 11:37 PM PST

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Hours after Nevada’s six electors cast their votes for President-elect Joe Biden through the official state process, the Nevada Republican Party’s six electors signed paperwork signaling their support for President Donald Trump in a symbolic ceremony devoid of any legal merit."

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/politics/i-team-nevada-republican-electors-cast-symbolic-void-votes-for-trump/

"Wisconsin GOP electors meet to cast their own votes too - just in case

Published: Dec. 14, 2020 at 2:28 PM EST|Updated: Dec. 14, 2020 at 2:29 PM EST
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Gov. Tony Evers and the nine other Democratic electors who met at the Wisconsin statehouse weren’t the only ones who gathered Monday to cast their ballots for President of the United States.

The Wisconsin Republicans had their electoral slate come together to cast their votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, in hopes that the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives count their votes instead, the Associated Press reported."

https://www.nbc15.com/2020/12/14/wisconsin-gop-electors-meet-to-cast-their-own-votes-too-just-in-case/

"As electoral college formalizes Biden’s win, Trump backers hold their own vote

By Haisten Willis, Jeremy Duda, Kathleen Masterson and David A. Fahrenthold
December 14, 2020

ATLANTA — Republicans in six states won by President-elect Joe Biden held their own electoral college-style votes Monday for President Trump — hoping that future court decisions would throw out Biden's votes and count the GOP ones instead.

These votes have no legal meaning, according to election law experts. The law only recognizes votes from electors chosen according to state law — which, in every one of these states, is the Democratic electors.

But many Republicans who had been chosen to cast electoral votes for Trump still gathered to cast them. They said they were employing a tactic used by Democrats in Hawaii in an election 60 years ago — casting votes that don’t count, in the hopes that a later court decision would give them force.

This year, that seems very unlikely to work."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-backers-electoral-college/2020/12/14/f0fcc59c-3e52-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html

Here are links to OPs that discussed the news:

"Mon Dec 14, 2020, 03:45 PM
Fake electors try to deliver Arizona's 11 votes for Trump"

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14710747

"Thu Dec 31, 2020, 07:53 PM
Real Biden Elector Moves to Intervene Against Fake Trump Electors Who Sued VP Pence:"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214786069

"Thu Dec 24, 2020, 09:47 PM
AZ Sec of State Hobbs asks AG to investigate fake electors for using state seal"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214758728

"Mon Dec 14, 2020, 07:20 PM
Over in Freeperville, they're all wet over "Alternate GOP Electors" giving Trump the win."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214712142

"Mon Dec 14, 2020, 04:40 PM
In the spirit of fake electors,"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214711050

"Mon Dec 14, 2020, 04:30 PM

Fake electors try to deliver Arizona's votes"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214710987

And there's several more. An advanced search can find them.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Yeah, I remember them being in the news but just hearing about these seditionist fools...

as they pulled off these frauds was not the whole story it seems. I imagine that the Pig's campaign and or Bannon, Stone, Meadows were directing these idiots. I hope they do time.

[Kaleva]

2. It was reported at the time the Trump Campaign was coordinating this.

The fake electors had their votes notarized and sent by certified mail to the National Archives.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. It wasn't a joke then

And it's not a joke now. They meant it.

[maxsolomon]

4. It's hard to tell when the treason is being done by clowns.

that was the "genius" of TFG: he's simultaneously a fascist traitor and an absurd clown, complete with clown makeup and clown hair and a long clown tie. berlusconi was similar.