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Feb 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Shortly before Trump supporters submitted fake electoral certificates to Congress, leaders in Wisconsin and Arizona apparently sought legal advice about whether their legislatures could affect the selection of electors after the election took place.
americanoversight.org/legislative-le…
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos both received memos confirming that state lawmakers cannot alter electors’ selection or actions after an election — a strategy that Trump allies had floated after the 2020 election.
It isn’t clear whether Fann or Vos sought the guidance in furtherance of such a plan or whether it was to dismiss calls from the Trump campaign and members of their own party to take action to overturn the popular vote in their states.
Both Fann and Vos went on to pursue highly partisan investigations of the election in their states.

We previously obtained the fake electoral certificates submitted by Trump supporters in Arizona, Wisconsin, and other states. See them here:
americanoversight.org/american-overs…

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Feb 3
New memos obtained by the @nytimes reveal an early outline of the plan for Trump supporters to create their own slates of electors in states that Biden won. nytimes.com/2022/02/02/us/… Image
@nytimes Ultimately, Trump allies in seven states would end up meeting and submitting phony electoral slates to Congress, according to copies that we obtained: americanoversight.org/fake-electoral… Image
@nytimes These "electoral certificates" formed the basis of a plan outlined by Trump lawyer John Eastman in a now infamous memo, suggesting that Vice President Pence could use the existence of the bogus slates to throw out the real electoral votes from the states in question on Jan. 6.
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Feb 2
We’re investigating Texas’ election “audit.” In Sept. 2021, the Texas secretary of state’s office announced a “full forensic audit” of the 2020 election in four counties — just hours after former President Trump publicly asked Gov. Abbott to do so.
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Trump’s demand for the investigation in Texas came nearly a year after he won the state by a 5.6 percent margin. The “audit” has focused on results in Dallas, Harris, Tarrant, and Collin counties, all of which except Collin were won by Joe Biden. Image
We have submitted over a dozen public records requests that ask for the release of communications concerning the audit from the offices of the secretary of state, governor, attorney general, and more.
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Jan 31
Last week, we questioned Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan under oath about his refusal to turn over public records related to the Arizona Senate’s partisan election "audit.”

Despite court orders to produce the records, Logan refuses to release them.
americanoversight.org/cyber-ninjas-c…
Over the course of five hours, Logan repeatedly argued that records in his possession were not public records and did not need to be released. Numerous court rulings have determined that they are.
americanoversight.org/arizona-suprem…
The deposition was ordered on Jan. 18 after Logan failed to appear for a previously noticed deposition. The court then consolidated our lawsuit with a similar case brought by @azcentral, so our attorneys as well as theirs were able to participate.
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Jan 28
Yesterday, we questioned Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan under oath about his refusal to turn over public records related to the Arizona Senate’s partisan election "audit.”

Despite several court orders to produce the records, Logan refuses to release them.
americanoversight.org/cyber-ninjas-c…
Over the course of five hours, Logan repeatedly argued that records in his possession were not public records and did not need to be released. Numerous court rulings have determined that they are.
americanoversight.org/arizona-suprem…
Logan testified that he did most of the “audit” work himself, with the help of an employee and subcontractors. He also said that he has started a new entity called Akolytos.
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Jan 27
We’ve been investigating an election “audit” in Fulton County, Pa. Last year, we obtained text messages and other communications indicating that state Sen. Doug Mastriano apparently threatened the county with a subpoena unless they undertook the review.
americanoversight.org/american-overs…
According to earlier reporting from the Washington Post, the Fulton County review took place on Dec. 31, 2020, without the knowledge or attendance of the county’s Democratic commissioner, Paula Shives.
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The documents we obtained contain text messages exchanged later that day by Shives and the county’s other commissioners and the county’s elections director, in which Shives expressed frustration at having been shut out from the review.
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Jan 27
We’ve been investigating whether and to what extent Trump administration officials assisted the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. This month, we submitted new FOIA requests to the Department of Defense to investigate.
americanoversight.org/document/foia-…
We want to know what, if any, role Trump allies at the Pentagon played in this effort.

We asked DOD for top agency officials’ emails and texts with the White House about the stolen-election lie from the weeks after the 2020 election.
americanoversight.org/document/foia-…
In separate FOIAs, we requested DOD officials’ emails with the Trump campaign and right-wing entities that showed an interest in delaying or halting the certification of Biden’s win.
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