The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are going after so-called fake electors, who in 2020 tried to convince Congress that Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, had won the presidential election.
Congressional investigators and the Department of Justice are ramping up investigations of Republican officials who they say were in on the scheme, and it was the focus of recent hearings by the House select committee examining Mr. Trump’s culpability in the Jan. 6, 2001, riot at the Capitol.
Electors, who are tasked with casting their vote in the Electoral College for the candidate who won in their state’s presidential election, have a history of being unfaithful.