Giuliani was indicted in Arizona for trying to overturn the outcome of the presidential election

“I will not allow American democracy to be undermined, it is too important,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, commented on the allegations. “If successful, this plan would deprive Arizona voters of the right to have their votes counted for the president they elect,” she added.

A grand jury indicted the group following a year-long investigation. A memo released Wednesday names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress that falsely claimed Trump had won Arizona in 2020.

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They include a former state Republican leader, a later Senate candidate and regional lawmakers, each facing nine counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery. If convicted, according to Reuters, they face sentences ranging from six months to 12 years. Some of the accused have already rejected the jury’s decision, saying that it is a political process.

Seven other defendants, including Giuliani and Meadows, are not specifically named in the document because they have not yet been served with the relevant documents. However, they were easily identifiable based on the defendants’ descriptions, AP noted.

Arizona was one of the states where the results were very close in 2020, and many Trump supporters still think the Republican candidate should have won there. However, according to the official results, the Democrat Joe Biden won in this state, while the difference between the two candidates was only 0.3 percentage points, or 10,457 votes.

According to the now-defunct Democratic-led congressional committee, Trump’s post-election campaign pushed for Republican-controlled state legislatures to send Republican voters even in states where Biden had won, according to official results. In the American system, the Electoral College formally decides on the new president after the vote of the voters.

Arizona is the fourth US state to indict “fake voters” for trying to manipulate the 2020 election results. Republican officials have previously been indicted in the states of Nevada, Michigan and Georgia. According to the now-defunct Democratic-led congressional committee, Trump’s post-election campaign pushed for Republican-controlled state legislatures to send Republican voters even in states where Biden had won, according to official results.

Trump himself, who will face the defending President Biden this November, is facing four criminal cases, two of which are related to the alleged effort to change the results of the 2020 election. One of these cases is federal, the other is being handled at the state level in Georgia . None of the cases will probably go before the jury before the November elections, while the second-named case is paradoxically more dangerous for Trump in that he would probably not be able to stop the trial even if he were re-elected president.

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