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Inside the meeting of Republican electors who sought to thwart Biden’s election win in Georgia

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By JEFF AMY
Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) — A December 2020 meeting of Republican electors in Georgia is a central part of the case against Donald Trump and 18 other people accused of conspiring to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral win in the state. The meeting was cited Friday as attorney Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to a felony. Chesebro is accused of helping to orchestrate the meetings in Georgia and elsewhere to send slates of Trump electors to Congress from states Biden won. Prosecutors said the 16 Republicans who gathered in Georgia’s capitol were “fake” electors. Their defenders called them “alternate” or “contingent” electors, saying they were trying to preserve Trump’s legal options as a lawsuit challenged Georgia’s election results.

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