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Did Nevada Republican Party leaders falsify election documents in the 2020 general election?

By Esther Tsvayg
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Republicans in Nevada — namely, Michael J. McDonald, the current Nevada GOP chair and James DeGraffenreid, former GOP vice chairman — forged elector letters claiming that Donald Trump won the 2020 election and sent the paperwork to the secretary of state, Congress and the National Archives.

In reality, Joe Biden had won Nevada by 33,596 votes. The Nevada Supreme Court certified the results of the 2020 election on Nov. 24, 2020, and on Dec. 14, 2020, six “electors” held an illegitimate signing ceremony outside the Legislature in Carson City. Aside from McDonald and DeGraffenreid, the four others who signed the forged letter are Durward James Hindle III, Jesse Law, Shawn Meehan and Eileen Rice.

McDonald has since been served a search warrant by the FBI as part of an investigation into the fake elector scheme.

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Sources
Wisconsin Examiner Trump’s fake electors: Here’s the full list
Nevada Republican Party Leadership
AP News Biden win over Trump in Nevada made official by court
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