A Nevada judge on Friday dismissed a case against six fake voters who declared that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election.
Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus ruled from the bench that the state had filed the case in the wrong jurisdiction, the state attorney general’s office confirmed to NBC News.
A spokesperson for the office said the state’s top prosecutor “will immediately appeal.”
The judge’s decision comes after a grand jury in December indicted six Republicans as part of an investigation into the 2020 presidential election into two criminal charges that included offering a false instrument to present and issuing a forged instrument.
Among those charged were Nevada State Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald and vice chairman and national committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, who have already appeared before a criminal grand jury investigating the Capitol riot.
DeGraffenreid referred requests for comment to his attorney, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment. McDonald did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Fake voter lists for the former president were also organized and charges were filed in other swing states such as Michigan and Georgia.
Earlier this month, three Trump allies were charged in Wisconsin in the fake voter scheme to keep Trump in office, including campaign official Mike Roman and attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and James Troupis.
A state grand jury in Arizona also indicted former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other Trump aides in April, along with a series of fake voters, in connection with an investigation into alleged efforts by the former president and his allies to nullify Joe Biden’s electoral victory in that state in 2020.
Trump’s team also helped prepare fake certificates in New Mexico and Pennsylvania, but the fake voters in those states were not charged. The fake voters in both states added text stipulating that their certificates would be presented if they were later recognized as duly elected and qualified voters.
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