Per Politico, David Shafer, the chair of the Georgia Republican Party, has been identified as having a singularly significant role in the plot to overturn the results of the election in that state in 2020.

Judge Robert McBurney in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia wrote in his ruling:

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[Shafer’s] role in establishing and convening the slate of alternate electors, his communications with other key players in the District Attorney’s investigation, and his role in other postelection efforts to call into question the validity of the official vote count in Georgia.

In the wide-ranging case, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened a criminal probe last year, investigating 16 Georgia Republicans who were offered as fake electors for the state in the 2020 election. The fake electors signed certificates declaring Trump had won the presidential election and offering themselves as official electors in order to certify Georgia’s election results for the former president.

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