KLAS: “Nevada Republicans Sent National Archives Fake Electoral Certificates Saying Trump Won Election”
Corrupt, failed politician Adam Laxalt’s Big Lie co-conspirators have been caught again, this time for fabricating fake election certificates in a failed attempt to certify the 2020 election for former President Donald Trump.
As Donald Trump’s Nevada campaign chair, Laxalt led the charge in promoting Trump’s Big Lie about voter fraud in 2020. And a year after the January 6th insurrection, he still refuses to condemn the violence he helped fuel with his election lies.
Laxalt even promised to go even further than Trump in his campaign for Senate, having said that he was already planning preemptive election litigation to challenge the 2022 election if he loses.
This isn’t the first time Laxalt and his co-conspirators have been caught promoting false information and legally dubious behavior on behalf of Trump’s Big Lie. Just last year, they were caught propping up a supposed victim of voter fraud, who later pled guilty to actually committing voter fraud himself.
Statement from Nevada Democratic Victory Spokesperson, Andy Orellana:
“Adam Laxalt led efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Nevada, and this shocking new reporting reveals how deep his and his allies’ scheme really went. Laxalt still refuses to condemn the violence his election lies inspired on January 6th, but more and more details are emerging about his shady efforts to keep Trump in office.”
Read more below on KLAS uncovering more lies from Laxalt and his NV GOP co-conspirators:
David Charns // January 12th, 2022
The Nevada Republican Party sent the federal government documentation certifying the election for former President Donald Trump, even though the state’s real electors for President Joe Biden had already done the same, documents obtained by the 8 News Now I-Team indicate.
As the I-Team reported in December 2020, the Nevada Republican Party’s six electors signed paperwork signaling their support for Trump in a symbolic ceremony devoid of any legal merit. The event in Carson City coincided with the actual state-sanctioned tally on Dec. 14, 2020.
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An envelope accompanying the documents indicates the packet was sent via certified mail to the National Archives from rural Minden, Nevada, later that day. It arrived in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 22.
The Supreme Court of Nevada and Gov. Steve Sisolak certified the election for Biden in November 2020. In certifying the results, the governor directed the electors from the winning presidential candidate’s party to cast their votes.
Nevada’s Electoral College met on Zoom during an official ceremony with the Secretary of State’s Office on Dec. 14. The electors cast their ballots and held them up so they could be seen.
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A few hours after the official state process had ended, a video accompanied a tweet from the Nevada GOP, saying, “History made today in Carson City,” as footage showed Republican electors signing papers on a table. The event was live-streamed on a YouTube channel called “Right Side Broadcasting Network.”
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The Republican meeting was not a state-sanctioned electoral vote and has no legality in the actual process. No state can submit more than one set of electoral votes.
Documents obtained by the I-Team on Wednesday indicate at least one set of the Republican-written electoral votes for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were sent to the National Archives.
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The event had no legal standing. Biden won Nevada by more than 33,000 votes.
In Nevada in 2020, 10 dead voters had ballots cast in their names and 10 people voted twice, the I-Team has learned from a secretary of state report, far below initial claims from state and national Republicans alleging nearly 4,000 individual cases of voter fraud.
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In one case, Donald “Kirk” Hartle, who told the I-Team last year that someone had stolen his deceased wife’s ballot and voted, in fact voted himself, officials said.
Rosemarie Hartle, of Las Vegas, died in 2017 at age 52 from breast cancer, Kirk Hartle, told the I-Team after the November election. A ballot for Rosemarie was issued in October 2020 and later received by the county, but Kirk said the ballot never came to his house. The I-Team found even though Rosemarie died in 2017, her name appeared on the active voter list.
The I-Team was first to report that prosecutors were charging Kirk Hartle in October 2021. In a plea agreement, Kirk Hartle pleaded guilty to one charge of voting more than once in the same election, which is a category D felony. Category D felonies carry a maximum prison sentence of four years.
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Rosemarie Hartle’s ballot was one of two cited by Nevada Republicans and national party leaders as evidence of voter fraud in Nevada.
“Dead people voted in Clark County,” Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union, said in a news conference after the election last year. “We have two examples that we have talked about and want to talk about today. One is the death of Rosemarie Hartle in 2017.”
Neither the Nevada GOP nor Schlapp have responded to repeated requests for comment on the Hartle case. A spokesperson at the Secretary of State’s Office said staff worked a combined 240 hours on the Hartle case.
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