Democracy & Elections

Eight Fake Georgia Electors in 2020 Election Take Immunity Deals

Hyemin Han, Tyler McBrien
Friday, May 5, 2023, 9:00 PM
Eight out of 16 electors who convened to vote for former President Donald Trump took immunity deals in the Fulton County investigation, and seven have sat for interviews.

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According to an ex parte filing in the Fulton County District Superior Court on May 5, eight out of 16 fake electors who committed to vote on behalf of former President Donald Trump took immunity deals and sat for interviews as a part of the ongoing investigation into alleged election interference by Trump and his allies in the 2020 presidential election. The filing states that seven of the eight electors sat for interviews in April 2023 as a part of the immunity agreement.

The existence of the immunity deals was revealed as a part of a motion opposing District Attorney Fani Willis’s motion to disqualify counsel for the eight elector nominees.

You can read the filing here or below.


Hyemin Han is an associate editor of Lawfare and is based in Washington, D.C. Previously, she worked in eviction defense and has interned on Capitol Hill and with the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. She holds a BA in government from Dartmouth College, where she was editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth independent daily.
Tyler McBrien is the managing editor of Lawfare. He previously worked as an editor with the Council on Foreign Relations and a Princeton in Africa Fellow with Equal Education in South Africa, and holds an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago.

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