A bogus electoral certificate signed by prominent New Mexico Republicans and sent to the national archive in the wake of the 2020 presidential election has gotten new scrutiny over the past week.
On the day that New Mexico's electoral college votes were to be delivered to Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the peculiar action received little attention.
Alternative electoral certificates from New Mexico and six other states were first published by American Oversight and have taken on greater significance as the U.S. House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol scrutinizes efforts by Trump supporters to subvert the certification of Biden'
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, referred the case to federal prosecutors after she described a similar action by Republicans in that state as election fraud.
The New Mexico Attorney General talks during a news conference.
The New Mexico Republicans' certificate has been referred to the U.S. Attorney Fred J. Federici.
Balderas said that election laws are the foundation of democracy. We have referred this matter to the appropriate federal law-enforcement authorities and will provide any assistance they deem necessary.
The Electoral Count Act will be in effect on January 6.
The signers who argued they might be the rightful electors have mostly been silent. One of the signers told the Las Cruces Sun-News that he has no regrets.
The state Republican Party did not respond to questions.
The 2020 election was undermining.
Biden won New Mexico's popular vote by more than half a million votes and the Democratic electors cast their votes. The result was filed according to the regular process.
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The campaign dropped the matter, but the president continued to insist that he was the rightful winner, despite the fact that there were audits and recounts in multiple states.
The New Mexico Republican electors turned up at the capitol and signed their election certificates in support of Trump.
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The signers were businessmen Jewll and Lupe, as well as Deborah Maestas, a former state GOP chairperson, Rosie Tripp, and Anissa Ford-Tinnin.
The document states that the parallel certification was done on the understanding that it might later be determined that we are the duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America from New Mexico.
The National Archives and Records Administration received the certificate. There was no merit to the claim that New Mexico's election result could be changed to favor Trump.
Alex Curtas, a spokesman for the New Mexico Secretary of State, told the Sun-News that they didn't disrupt the electoral college count. The election went off without a hitch.
New Mexico requires elections to be decided by games of chance.
Congress was attacked by supporters of the president after Trump called on them to march to the Capitol.
After order was restored and the proceedings continued, a newly sworn-in Congresswoman objected to certifying election results in favor of Biden from Arizona and Pennsylvania.
On the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, he objected to the certification of Pennsylvania's Electoral College results.
Herrell's office did not respond to questions about the GOP electoral certificates or her thoughts about the validity of Biden's election.
The election results were confirmed and Biden and Harris were inaugurated on January 20, 2021, in the presence of heightened security at the Capitol and throughout Washington, D.C.
No regrets at all.
The Sun-News reported that Powdrell said he had no regrets about signing the electoral certificate.
The group signed the certificate in the lobby after being refused entry to the state Capitol building.
The certificate was dismissed as a non-issue.
He asked, "Now that the election is over, why are we talking about it?" How can you undermine an election that was already done?
He signed the certificate to say he supports the Republican Party.
"The election was what it was and unless you've got definitive, irreversible facts to refute it, it is what it is," he said.
He suggested that courts wouldn't hear the evidence. In the weeks after the election, the Trump campaign and allies filed lawsuits and motions to intervene in several states. None of the challenges were successful.
The courts won't hear it, so maybe it's time for you to let the general public decide.
'They have real consequences.'
The Secretary of State's Office supported further investigation of the Republicans' certificate after it was revealed that they had staged a stunt in December 2020 to try to get Donald Trump elected.
The violence on January 6 was the result of those kinds of acts and the narrative they perpetuated. They can undermine our democratic processes.
The New Mexico delegation is in Washington.
The January 6 uprising has made voting rights a priority for both the state and federal level.
He said that the effort did not disrupt the election process directly even if it caused doubts in the process.
Algernon D'Ammassa can be reached at adammassa@lcsun-news.com.
The Las Cruces Sun- News originally published this article.
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