The Liberty Daily 
(WND)—Alternate slates of election winners long have been present in American politics and elections. When there is a very close or contested vote count, the party trailing in the results often prepares a slate of election winners should their arguments prevail and their candidates win.
During the close 2020 election, which saw a long list of undue influences on the vote before Joe Biden was installed in the White House, Republicans in several states took that action.
Already lawfare cases against them in three states, Arizona, Michigan and Georgia, have been dismissed and now a fourth has been added to the list.
It was Judge Mary Kay Holthus in Clark County, Nevada, who tossed Democrat-inspired forgery charges against the six Republicans who signed onto an electors slate.
The ruling was that there was not enough evidence they intended to defraud state officials.
“The case is a major victory for Trump allies, as the defendants had long maintained the certificate was not used to intentionally deceive officials into believing it was legitimate,” explained a report in the Washington Examiner.
“The fact that Defendants openly announced both their actions and their asserted purpose, rather than concealing their conduct or attempting to secretly induce governmental reliance, weighs against a reasonable inference that they acted with fraudulent intent,” the judge noted.
Holthus had tossed the case back in 2024 after finding that the Democratic attorney general filed charges against Republicans in a county that lacked jurisdiction.
The Nevada Supreme Court reversed that last year.
The state’s attorney general, Aaron Ford, apparently still isn’t finished, with stated plans to go back to the state Supreme Court again.
“The six Republicans pleaded not guilty when they were indicted in 2023 on felony charges, which carried punishments up to a maximum of five years in prison. They included Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald, Nevada GOP Vice Chairman Jim Hindle, Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, then-Clark County GOP Chairman Jesse Law, Shawn Meehan, and Eileen Rice,” the report said.
The judge also pointed out that prosecutors, apparently in violation of a long list of court system requirements, withheld exculpatory evidence – evidence that supports the defendants’ case – from the grand jury that created the charges.
The judge noted that the state’s evidence used by prosecutors confirmed that the GOP certificates “could not be processed as genuine,” meaning the defendants were being prosecuted for a possible outcome that couldn’t have happened.
“Here, the evidence presented to the grand jury demonstrated that the GOP Certificate was not a document that could legally be accepted, filed, registered, or recorded under Nevada or federal law. Nor was there evidence that any public official believed it to be Nevada’s official electoral certificate or was induced to act upon it in the mistaken belief that it was genuine,” the judge said.
