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From the indictment:
Read the above and recall that what AshLael wants anyone still reading this to believe is that for the purposes of the Georgia indictment, it makes no difference whether in creating the alternative slate of electors (aka "fake electors"), the accused parties intended for the "CERTIFICATE OF THE VOTES" to deceive Congress into wrongly counting Georgia's votes for Donald Trump.
To echo a favorite line of mine, I cannot imagine an interpretation of the phrase "with the intent to defraud," or really the entire context and meaning of Count 11 and several other counts like it, that would make AshLael's position reasonable.
Whether the intent of the "fake elector" document was to deceive Congress matters to the legal case. Of course it matters. Anyone who says differently either hasn't read the indictment or is a troll.
Well, hang on a sec. You started by objecting to the notion that "the electors committed fraud". You're now pointing to an offence which none of the false electors has been charged with.
Ok so maybe the relevant question is not whether the false electors themselves committed conspiracy to commit forgery, but whether Trump and the other people actually charged with that offence did. But if that's that's the case, the "contingent elector" explanation you proposed is a lot harder to justify:
By Jan 6 all of Trump's legal challenges had failed. Nonetheless he still attempted to have these false electors accepted as the valid ones. So while the "contingent elector" theory may work as a defence for the electors themselves - and it may well be exactly why the electors have not also been charged with the same offence - it doesn't work for Trump and his inner circle.
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