If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this le or imprisoned not more than five years
“It is not necessary that the Government shall be subjected to property or pecuniary loss by the fraud, but only that its legitimate official action and purpose shall be defeated by misrepresentation, chicane or the overreaching of those charged.”
Election Fraud: 52 U.S.C. § 20511.
In relevant part this statute states that whoever:
defrauds, or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by . . . the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fic ious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held, shall be . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years.
A court would have to determine whether “ballots” in this statute can include electoral college ballots (as opposed to voter ballots) but that certainly is not an unreasonable stretch.
Conclusions
It turns out there was wide ranging election fraud
that was aimed at overturning the results of the election.
It was committed by dozens of Republican lawmakers and officials
who forged counterfeit electoral college certifications and submitted them to the National Archives and Congress.
This fraud was illegal and should be prosecuted.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...e-Certificates