{"id":9595,"date":"2026-08-14T04:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9595"},"modified":"2026-08-14T04:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:11:10","slug":"judge-dismisses-nevada-case-against-fake-electors-accused-of-forging-certificate-in-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9595","title":{"rendered":"Judge dismisses Nevada case against \u2018fake electors\u2019 accused of forging certificate in 2020 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<cite><br \/>\n<span><\/span><span>AP<\/span><span>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<\/cite><\/div>\n<p>\n            The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the state\u2019s 2020 presidential election has been dismissed, a judge ruled Thursday.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9593\">Want an extra hour in your day? Try expert practices to free up your time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The dismissal marks the latest setback in swing states\u2019 efforts to prosecute fake electors who tried to keep Trump in the White House after he lost to Joe Biden in 2020.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Three other fake elector cases in Arizona, Michigan and Georgia have been dismissed. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes recently dismissed her office\u2019s criminal case but vowed to bring it back to a grand jury in hopes of securing another indictment. The dismissal was a legal maneuver aimed at getting around a deadline for starting new grand jury proceedings after Mayes lost an appeal earlier in June.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, who is also running for governor as a Democrat, brought charges relating to forgery and \u201coffering a false instrument for filing or record\u201d against the six Nevada Republicans, who pleaded not guilty.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            His office plans to appeal the Thursday ruling.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The defendants included Michael McDonald, the chair of the Nevada Republican Party, and Jesse Law, the former chair of the Clark County Republican Party. Their attorneys declined to comment Thursday.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            After the 2020 election, the six Republican electors gathered outside of the Nevada Legislature to sign a certificate giving the state\u2019s six electoral votes to Trump, despite Biden winning the state by more than 30,000 votes. The ceremony was broadcast online, and the video footage was used as evidence in the case.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The case has revolved around the defendants\u2019 intent behind submitting the certificate.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9579\">Justice Department\u2019s last-minute decision not to defend gun law causes confusion among owners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Prosecutors argue the defendants intended for their documents to be mistaken for actual electoral votes that then-Vice President Mike Pence would count on Jauary 6, 2021.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The defendants say submitting the certificate was an act of \u201cpolitical theater\u201d designed to publicize their concerns about the election. They were preserving their rights to challenge the official election results and had no intent to deceive a government agency into accepting the GOP certificate as real, their attorneys argued.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Nevada Judge Mary Kay Holthus agreed in her ruling.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            She found there was a lack of evidence that showed the electors intended to deceive government officials, and she determined that the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence to the grand jury.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe fact that Defendants openly announced both their actions and their asserted purpose, rather than concealing their conduct or attempting to secretly induce governmental reliance, weighs against a reasonable inference that they acted with fraudulent intent,\u201d Holthus wrote in her ruling.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\nJurisdiction had also been an issue, but the case eventually landed in Clark County, which is home to Las Vegas and leans Democratic.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Courts have dismissed similar cases in Michigan and Georgia, and a special prosecutor dropped a federal case in late 2024 that charged Trump with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. Those cases ended after Trump defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. A fake electors case is ongoing in Wisconsin.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9577\">7 podiatrist-recommended toe separators to relieve tired, painful feet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the state\u2019s 2020 presidential election has been dismissed, a judge ruled Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Judge dismisses Nevada case against \u2018fake electors\u2019 accused of forging certificate in 2020 election - 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