The House Select Committee responsible for investigating the details of the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot on Tuesday subpoenaed six more individuals, including three Republican state officials from Arizona and Pennsylvania from their involvement in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
The list of state officials identified Douglas Mastriano, a state senator from Pennsylvania, Mark Finchem, a state legislator from Arizona, who is also running for the job that oversees state elections, and Kelli Ward, the current chair of the Arizona Republican Party. The subpoenas aim to get information regarding the issue of sending fake electors to Congress.
Trump's Fake Elector Scheme
The controversy surrounds former United States President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to take the win from Democrat Biden. The Republican businessman is accused of hiring fake electors to prostate him as the winner over his rival in the 2020 presidential elections.
The kind of electoral subversion in the ploy is something that many people familiar with the matter believe could be attempted in the future. Currently, several members of Congress are working on creating ways that will make it much more difficult to use similar strong-arm tactics to overturn valid electoral results, as per Yahoo News.
The House Select Committee also subpoenaed two members of the Trump campaign. In a statement, the panel's chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said that the committee was actively looking for information about Trump's alleged efforts to use false slates of electors to vouch for him during the 2020 elections.
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Thompson said his team was trying to acquire records and testimony from former campaign officials and other individuals in various states who they believe held relevant information about the planning and implementation of such plans.
CNN reported that Michael Roman, who was in charge of Election Day operations in 2020, and his deputy, Gary Micahel Brown, were the two members of Trump's campaign subpoenaed by the committee. The two individuals were reportedly involved in efforts to promote allegations of electoral fraud in the November 2020 election.
A Slew of Subpoenas
The remaining subpoenaed individual was identified to be Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan's Republican Party. The committee also sent letters alongside the subpoenas where they said that the panel had obtained communications showing Roman's and Brown's state involvement in Trump's attempts to overturn the elections that he lost.
Thompson wrote in a letter sent to Roman that he was accused of helping direct the Trump campaign staffers to participate in the scheme. On the other hand, Finchem was believed to have been on the Capitol grounds on the day of the riot. The panel said the official was in communication with leaders from the "Stop the Steal" movement outside the building.
The House Select Committee claimed that Finchem said he was in Washington to deliver an evidence book and a letter to the former United States Vice President, Mike Pence. The documents allegedly showed key evidence of voter fraud in the Arizona presidential election. The official asked the then-vice president to consider postponing the award of electors until the situation could be addressed properly, the New York Times reported.
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