• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Forged documents are illegal. Changing laws regarding how electors are selected isn’t.

    Heck - way back in 2000 the Supreme Court hinted at the tactic in the majority opinion in Bush v Gore, saying that the Florida legislature probably could have just selected electors directly after the vote.

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      4 months ago

      Actually, a lot of the fake electors tried to use the defense that there’s no specific law against fake elector documents.

      Colorado just signed a law that says fake electors are illegal.

      Landscape’s a lot turnier then it looks