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SpotlightPA is reporting…Sixteen people in Michigan who served as so-called “fake electors” for Donald Trump are now facing state-level forgery charges, but similar prosecution appears unlikely here in Pennsylvania as the investigation into an alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election ramps up.
Prosecutors in Arizona and Georgia, two states with “false electors,” are also investigating the plan.
But unlike Michigan, Pennsylvania’s alternate electors are unlikely to face criminal repercussions because of an important legal caveat they added to their document. Pennsylvania’s certificate said the votes they were casting should only be counted if a court found that they were the “duly elected and qualified Electors.”
Pennsylvania’s slate of alternate Trump electors featured 20 prominent Republicans from across the state. Among them were former U.S. Rep. and gubernatorial candidate Lou Barletta, Allegheny County Council Member Sam DeMarco, state GOP Vice Chair Bernadette Comfort, and Kevin Harley, a one-time spokesperson for former Gov. Tom Corbett.
A copy of the certificate, which lists all of the electors’ names, was obtained by the government watchdog group American Oversight
