by Ponderer on February 16, 2026 10:00 am
First guilty plea in AZ fake elector case comes from GOP activist Lorraine Pellegrino
The first of Arizona’s 11 fake electors has pleaded guilty of attempting to undermine the will of voters in the state in 2020 to keep former President Donald Trump in office, even though voters in Arizona — and nationwide — rejected him and instead chose Joe Biden.
Conservative activist Lorraine Pellegrino, who previously served as the president of Ahwatukee Republican Women, entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of filing a false instrument, according to Richie Taylor, a spokesman for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
All of the defendants in the case, including the 11 fake electors, were charged with nine felonies, including fraud, conspiracy and forgery. In December of 2020, just a month after the election, Pellegrino was one of the group of Republicans who signed a certificate falsely claiming that Trump won the state. President Joe Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes.
That false certificate was ignored, and Congress went on to certify Biden as the next president, using the votes cast by Arizona’s actual electors, during a ceremony that was delayed by the Jan. 6 insurrection.
In April, Arizona AG Kris Mayes announced the indictment of 18 defendants involved in the Grand Canyon State’s fake electors case, including state lawmakers, lawyers connected to Trump, and two former Trump aides. Trump himself has not been indicted in the state, referred to instead in court documents as an “unindicted co-conspirator.”
azmirror.com
by Indy! on February 16, 2026 1:19 pm
Just tells you who the MAGAts really are. Al Gore actually won the 2000 election and yet - for the sake of the country - he stepped aside and let Smirk have the Oval Office in order to keep the peace. Meanwhile the orange ass monkey is still reliving the 2020 election while he's in office. In some ways, it's a good thing - let him waste time on that one instead of continuing to destroy the country.
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