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The question swirling in my mind, given this article, is: how were these people expecting to get away with such blatant crimes?
Some notable quotes:
(Re: Kent Vanderwood)
But he wasn't an elector. He was a false elector. I'm not understanding how his lawyer could suggest there was no intent to defraud anyone. Isn't that an obvious contradiction?
(Re: Stan Grot)
(Re: Amy Facchinello)
The crime scene:
Does anyone have any idea how these people were going to get away with these crimes? This is astounding.
They were banking on Trump's coup to work. If he had regained power, none of these people would have been prosecuted
(e: "nine" to "none")
Nine? Nein.
"nein" works, meant to write "none"
Nein doesn't work as it's "no", not "none", but it was in jest anyhow.
If they got away with it they'd be hailed as heroes (in their mind, in reality would be eliminated to prevent them from talking)
They bet on the wrong horse, and the one they expected to get a pardon from didn't win. They proverbially fucked around and are now finding out.
Perhaps the goal was to get caught and sow doubt about the integrity of our elections and our democracy.
13 people are not voluntarily going to prison to potentially sow doubt about election procedures.