Eight people have to appear in court in the US state of Arizona for alleged manipulation of the 2020 US elections. They include Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his then White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
They are alleged to have been guilty of conspiring to manipulate the elections, including by posing as voters to enable Trump’s re-election, according to the indictment published on Wednesday.
Names redacted in the indictment
Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is also among the defendants, his spokesman Ted Goodman admitted. His name and the names of seven other defendants have been redacted until the indictment is served, Arizona’s attorney general said. One of the defendants is listed in court documents as chief of staff in 2020 — a position Mark Meadows held in the White House at the time.
The court documents also list a “former U.S. president,” Trump, as an unindicted co-conspirator among the 18 defendants. Representatives for Meadows and Trump did not immediately respond to questions from Reuters news agency.
Explosive events in Arizona
Arizona was one of seven states where Trump’s allies tried to secure the state’s electoral votes for Trump even as they went to Joe Biden. The President of the United States is elected by the voters of the individual states, who cast their votes in the so-called Electoral College.
Possible election fraud concerns the courts
In Arizona and almost all other states, the winner of the election receives all the electoral votes in that state. To become president, a candidate needs 270 votes: the majority of the 538 electoral votes. The distribution of votes depends on the population of the state in question. Arizona has eleven electoral votes.
The election fraud is the subject of two other criminal cases in Washington DC and Georgia, in which Trump is accused of illegally trying to overturn Biden’s victory.
Source: Krone
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