re: #295 Joe Bacon ✅

Ginni Thomas ‘may have crossed the line’ into criminality with fake electors plot: former federal prosecutor

Ginni Thomas has long been scrutinized for messages she sent to lawmakers calling for a new slate of electors to falsely claim Donald Trump had beaten Joe Biden in states in which the Republican had lost.

Newsweek previously reported that Thomas is alleged to have sent emails to dozens of Arizona election officials and lawmakers claiming it was their “constitutional duty” to install a “clean slate of electors” who would be willing to declare Trump the winner in the Grand Canyon State in 2020.

She is said to have allegedly told the lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and falsely claimed the responsibility to choose electors was “yours and yours alone.”

newsweek.com

[NOTE: usual IANAL disclaimer]
OK: not that I’m defending Ginni Thomas in the least (and IMO, an orange jumpsuit with numbers on it would suit her perfectly as a fashion statement), but SRSLY: does this shit rise to any actual, prosecutable level of criminality? You, I, or any of us could send blustering emails to State election officials gibbering about their “constitutional duty” or whatever, but barring, say, any actual *threats* (i.e., “vote in a Trump slate, or your job will be in jeopardy”, or “vote in a Trump slate or your house will be firebombed” or something), where’s the “crime”??*

*OK, to a GOP AZ state official, an email from Virginia Thomas is probably going to carry a tad more weight than one from Jane Q. Public, but they still have the option to ignore it. Did they?