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As we noted on Monday, the Electoral College held its first and only class of 2024 yesterday. Donald Trump was elected president. There were no irregularities.
One interesting fact about yesterday's election is that 13 of the 538 presidential electors this year were fake electors for Donald Trump in 2020. These are all party activists in Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania who are so deeply involved in Republican politics that they managed to get themselves on the actual 2024 slates of electors, despite what they did in 2020, namely signing fraudulent Certificates of Vote. In the end, those certificates were rejected, but falsifying an official document is a crime in every state, and some of them may yet face consequences.
What this shows is that the Republican organs in at least three states consider trying to overturn the 2020 election an honorable thing rather than a crime. Good to know.
Being an elector is considered a great honor, since only 538 people get to actually vote for president every 4 years. The honor is normally bestowed on people who have worked hard for a party for years and who are honored members of their communities, not criminals. Among the 15 electors in Michigan this year are six who were charged with a forgery offense by the Michigan AG Dana Nessel (D) in July 2023. Of the six Nevada electors this year, two were charged by the state AG earlier this month. In Pennsylvania, there are 19 electors this year and five of them were fake electors in 2020 but have not been charged because they hedged their language in the certificates and said that these were the electoral votes provided that the courts rule the real ones invalid. (V)