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Republican electors from a number of swing states cast their Electoral College votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence Monday afternoon. Today, Arizona s 11 Republican presidential electors met to cast their votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. With ongoing legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election still being heard in the courts, and state legislatures across the country holding hearings on election fraud and voting irregularities, it is imperative that the proper electors are counted by Congress, Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward released in a statement.
Republican electors from Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania made similar moves.
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On Dec. 14, 2020, as state electors around the country formalized the results of the 2020 presidential election by casting ballots in the electoral college, conservative personalities such as Antonio Sabato Jr. posted messages claiming that the GOP electors in Nevada, a state that was won by President-elect Joe Biden by more than 30,000 votes, had cast their ballots instead for U.S. President Donald Trump:
Sabato Jr. is referring to an unofficial ceremony held by a group of people pretending to represent Nevada’s state electors in which they cast fake ballots for Trump. This ceremony was unsanctioned, these people were not the state’s electors, and these fake ballots were unofficial.