.MaddowBlog: That was bizarre, but as it turns out, it was not unique.
— in the same capitol, at the same time — to cast electoral votes for Donald Trump, despite his defeat in the state.
That led to three relatively straightforward questions. The first is whether this was legal. On this point, George Conwaythis morning,"Anyone who prepared or submitted, or aided, abetted or conspired in the preparation or submission of, false electoral-vote certificates, would presumably be guilty of a host of federal and state criminal offenses."
And the third question is whether the list will grow beyond Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona. The answer, not surprisingly, is yes: Republicans in Nevada and Georgia did the same thing. As"It's not like they created these documents to hold close to their chest and fantasize that this had been the real outcome. It's not like they created these documents just to keep themselves as a keepsake. They sent them in to the government as if they were real documents.
Complicating matters is the fact that the fake documents match: They have the same formatting, same spacing, same font, and nearly identical phrasing.