Charges have been dismissed against six Nevada so-called "fake electors" who were accused of submitting false votes for former President Donald Trump in 2020.
The Clark County judge overseeing the case said it was not the proper jurisdiction to hear the case.
District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus on Friday morning rejected prosecutors’ contention that Clark County was the appropriate county. Defense attorneys had said Carson City would be more appropriate — where the false signing ceremony was held — or in Douglas County, where phony elector documents were mailed from, according to the Nevada Independent.
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“You have literally, in my opinion, a crime that has occurred in another jurisdiction,” Holthus said, according to the newspaper. “It’s so appropriately up north and so appropriately not here.”
Aaron Ford, the state attorney general, said the “state got it wrong” and said his office plans to appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court.
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The six Republicans were indicted in December and have pleaded not guilty. They were charged with offering a false instrument for filing and uttering forged instruments.
The state's Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald, is among those charged, as is Clark County Republican Party Chairman Jesse Law, Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, Nevada GOP Vice Chairman Jim Hindle III, Eileen Rice and Shawn Meehan.
