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Jul 18, 2023 · State prosecutors in Michigan announced criminal charges in July against the 16 Republicans who served as fake electors in 2020, a watershed moment in the still-ongoing federal and state...
- How Electors Are Chosen in Michigan
- Electors Nominated by Michigan Dems
- Electors Nominated by Michigan GOP
In August, when the Democratic and Republicanparties held their conventions to officially nominate Biden and Trump as presidential candidates, they also nominated their electors. These individuals tend to be party activists. Michigan law prohibits "faithless electors," meaning that electors nominated by the state's political party must cast their v...
Chris Cracchiolo – 1st District
Age: 67 Occupation:Director of business development for J. Allan Reynolds, a staffing company based out of metro Detroit Lives in:Williamsburg If Biden wins Michigan, Chris Cracchiolo would be excited to cast one of Michigan's 16 Electoral College votes for the first time. An avid golfer and lifelong Democrat, Cracchiolo grew up in St. Clair Shores. His father was a bus driver in Detroit and proud union member. Cracchiolo first became interested in politics as a child when he remembers watchi...
Tim Smith – 2nd District
Age:60 Occupation:UniServ Director with the Michigan Education Association Lives in:Grand Haven Timothy E. Smith is an army veteran and self-described "diehard Democrat." From Detroit originally, Smith lived in Wisconsin for 14 years before returning to Michigan to work as a union representative for the Michigan Education Association. Smith first became involved with the Democratic Party in 2012 when he campaigned for a ballot proposal that would have enshrined collective bargaining rights in...
Blake Mazurek – 3rd District
Age:52 Occupation:U.S. history middle school teacher Lives in:Grand Rapids Blake Mazurek is a public school history teacher in Grand Rapids. "My passion for history and educating our young women and men of Michigan propels me forward each and every day," he wrote in an email to the Detroit Free Press. Mazurek serves as president of the Grandville Education Association, the local Michigan Education Association, and as chair of the Kent County Education Employees PAC. He is also actively involv...
John Haggard – 1st District
Age:79 Occupation:Owner of Haggard's Plumbing and Heating Lives in:Charlevoix John Haggard is a proud Charlevoix native. After being stationed in Oakland, California, and serving two tours in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Haggard moved back to Michigan. He worked for Ford for three and a half years, and moved to Charlevoix where he and his brother started a plumbing and heating business in 1971. "I've been very politically involved my whole life," he said. In 1964, Haggard handed out brochur...
Kent Venderwood – 2nd District
Kent Venderwood is the chairfor the 2nd District Republican Party. He declined our request for an interivew.
Terri Lynn Land – 3rd District
Terri Lynn Land served as Michigan's Secretary of State from 2003 to 2011. Land lost her 2014 Senate bid to Sen. Gary Peters, who defeated her by a wide margin. That year, the Michigan Democratic Party filed a complaint against Land with the Federal Elections Commission, claiming Land and her husband's contributions to her campaign violated federal limits. In 2018, Land and her husband settled with the FEC, agreeing to pay a $66,000 fine. This election, she is running as a candidate for the W...
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Jul 19, 2023 · The 14 electors, alongside Kenneth Thompson and James Renner, who were chosen to replace the absent elector candidates Terri Lynn Land, a former secretary of state, and Gerald Wall are believed to have signed a number of documents as the “duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America from ...
Apr 25, 2024 · State prosecutors in Michigan, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada have now charged at least some of the fake electors in their states. An investigation is still underway in Wisconsin.
This is a list of members of the recent House of Wettin. It includes only those who were members of the male-line descent from Ernest, Elector of Saxony, and consequently bore his "surname", Wettin.
Aug 10, 2023 · Politics Aug 10, 2023 2:15 PM EDT. LANSING, Mich. (AP) — All 16 Michigan Republicans accused in a fake elector scheme to keep former President Donald Trump in power are challenging the charges ...
Jul 19, 2023 · July 19, 2023 / 4:22 PM EDT / CNN. (CNN) — State prosecutors in Michigan announced criminal charges Tuesday against the 16 Republicans who served as fake electors in 2020, a watershed moment...
