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1:12Now PlayingMichigan attorney general charges alleged fake electors with felonies | USA TODAY
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1:12Now PlayingMichigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed felony charges against 16 people for acting as fake electors for former President Donald Trump in 2020.
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President Joe Biden won Michigan in 2020, but Trump and his supporters embraced conspiracy theories to level baseless claims that the election was stolen. The news of the criminal charges in Michigan comes the same day Trump announced he is a target of the federal criminal investigation into the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Ahead of the 2022 midterm election, Nessel referred her office's probe into the group of Michigan Republicans whose names appear on the fake certificate of electors to federal authorities.
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