Originally posted by Adam_PoE
As Trump's team pushed its discredited voter fraud narrative, the National Archives received forged certificates of ascertainment declaring him and then-Vice President Mike Pence the winners of both Michigan and Arizona and their electors after the 2020 election. Public records requests show the secretaries of state for those states sent those certificates to the January 6 panel, along with correspondence between the National Archives and state officials about the documents.The National Archives sent emails to the Arizona secretary of state on December 11, 2020 passing along the forged certificates "for your awareness," and informing the state officials the Archives would not accept them. Arizona then took legal action against at least one of the groups who sent in the fake documents, sending a cease and desist letter to a pro-Trump "sovereign citizen" group telling them to stop using the state seal and referring the matter to the state attorney general.
The Nevada Republican Party sent the federal government documentation certifying the election for Donald Trump, even though the state's real electors for President Joe Biden had already done the same, documents indicate.
The certificate, which looks much different than the official state one, reads, "We, the undersigned, being the duly elected and qualified electors for president and vice president of the United States of America from the State of Nevada, do hereby certify" six electoral votes for Trump.
An envelope accompanying the documents indicates the packet was sent via certified mail to the National Archives from rural Minden, Nevada later that day. It arrived in Washington, D.C. on December 22nd.
This explains why in December of 2020, the Nevada GOP held a public signing ceremony, during which the fake electors piously removed their MAGA hats to pray.