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State of Arizona v. Kelli Ward,et al. is a state criminal prosecution concerning the Trump fake electors plot in Arizona. The eighteen defendants,including Kelli Ward,Rudy Giuliani,Mark Meadows,and Boris Epshteyn,are accused of producing and attempting to use a false certificate of ascertainment containing electoral votes for Donald Trump,who had lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Arizona.
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