Arizona was still recovering from a bloody election war in 2020 over the hotly contested presidential race between President Trump and Joe Biden, and the race between Republican Kari Lake and Democrat (then-acting Secretary of State) Katie Hobbs for governor, when Arizonans were faced with yet another highly implausible result in the 2022 election between Democrat Chris Mayes and very popular Republican candidate Abraham Hamadeh. After almost two months and a recount, the race for Arizona attorney general was called for Democrat Chris Mayes by a mere 280 votes.
As one of her first official acts as Arizona’s new attorney general, Chris Mayes, in April 2024, committed what many believed was a coordinated act of lawfare with attorneys general and prosecutors in several swing states against the eleven 2020 Republican electors and seven Trump lawyers, charging them with 9 felonies each.
In addition to Arizona, 3 other states filed criminal charges against the Republican electors who filed an alternate slate of electoral votes for President Trump in the event the election results in their states were overturned:
Georgia (Fulton County) — Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s investigation led to a sweeping indictment (Aug. 2023 grand jury) that included the Georgia GOP electors and allied lawyers, who were charged with several felony counts, including racketeering, conspiracy, making false statements, filing false documents, and impersonating a public officer.
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