A Lawsuit, was filed, Tuesday morning, in Wisconsin State Court, in the State Capital, Madison, by Democratic Presidential Electors, and another Wisconsin Voter, that names the Defendants as 10 GOP Electors and Two others "who conspired with, aided, and abetted them."
The Complaint says that the Defendants "helped lay the groundwork for the events of January 6, 2021" and "helped lay the foundation for a nationwide scheme to override the results of the 2020 election" when they submitted a Republican slate of presidential electors on December 14, 2020.
"They did so even though they knew that Biden and Harris had won the election in Wisconsin; even though those results had been recounted and certified; and even though Trump and Pence had exhausted all available legal mechanisms for challenging the outcome," the Complaint alleged.
"The Wisconsin fraudulent electors and their counterparts in the other swing States purported to cast electoral votes for Trump and Pence because they hoped to lay the foundation for Pence and Congress to count their ballots on January 6, 2021, and to reject those cast by the real electors who had won the popular vote."
The Plaintiffs allege, that the Act of Submitting a False Slate of Electors was part of an attempt by Trump and his allies "to overturn the election results by assembling slates of fraudulent presidential electors in select swing States where he had lost." Pence Rejected the Theory that the Alternate Electors could be Counted instead of Legally-Cast Electors. Congress ultimately Certified the Election for President Biden in the early hours of January 7, 2021, hours after Trump Supporters Attacked the U.S. Capitol and Delayed the Count.
The Plaintiffs are asking a Wisconsin Judge to Declare that submitting the Slate of Electors was Unlawful. They also want the Individuals to be Banned from being involved with the Presidential Elector Process again in Wisconsin, because they say there's a chance that the Defendants or People inspired by them "will violate these criminal prohibitions again in the future."
"The individuals named in this case schemed to hijack Wisconsin's role in selecting the president of the United States and to override the will of the voters," Jeff Mandell, President of the liberal firm Law Forward, and an Attorney representing the Plaintiffs, said in a statement. "These fraudulent electors crossed a line. Their disregard for the law helped lay the groundwork for the insurrection of January 6th. We can't allow this to ever happen again."
The Wisconsin Elections Commission Unanimously concluded in March, that the GOP Electors didn't Violate any Laws because those involved said Publicly and in Legal Filings "that they were meeting to preserve legal options while litigation was pending."
The Lawsuit cites Two Memos written by Defendant Kenneth Chesebro to Jim Troupis, who Represented Trump's Campaign in the Recount and is also named as a Defendant, in which steps were laid out for Republicans to take "so that the votes might be eligible to be counted if later recognized (by a court, the state legislature, or Congress) as the valid ones that actually count in the presidential election."
The Complaint alleges that the GOP Electors took those steps "because they intended for their purported votes to be counted, even though they knew they were not the lawfully elected presidential electors for the State of Wisconsin." And that those Elector Forms were sent to the National Archive.
The Lawsuit alleges the Actions by the Electors also paved the way for a Partisan Investigation into the 2020 Election in Wisconsin, and eroded Trust in Elections among some Voters in the State. The Investigator leading that Review suggested in March, that the State Legislature should "look very hard at the option of decertification of the 2020 election," even though the Legislature's Nonpartisan Attorneys have said that isn't possible.
The House Committee Investigating the January 6 Attack has issued Subpoenas to People who participated as "alternate electors" during the 2020 Election. A Federal Judge in March, ruled that Conservative Attorney John Eastman, who was a driving force behind the Plan to Reject Electoral Votes in key Battleground States, had to turn over a batch of emails to the House Committee. Eastman has fought to shield another 3,200 documents from that Committee.
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