What to know about the Pennsylvania fake electors mentioned in Trump's third indictment

Efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to organize fake slates of presidential electors from seven states ahead of Congress' certification of the 2020 vote play a central role in the four-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States. Here's what to know about Pennsylvania's fake electors and how they factor into the latest Trump indictment: Pennsylvania was one of several states that had ‘fake electors' for Trump According to the 45-page indictment, after Trump and his allies failed to persuade officials in the battleground states to illegally swing the election in his favor, they began recruiting groups of 'fake electors' — also sometimes called 'false electors' or 'alternate electors' — whom they hoped could be used to disrupt the congressional certification of the 2020 vote and overturn the result of the election.