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Charges against Trump include effort to subvert Electoral College

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, July 29, 2023. [AP Photo]

The historic indictment charging former President Donald Trump with conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election alleges, among other things, that Trump and his advisers orchestrated an elaborate plot to undermine the workings of the Electoral College, one of the least understood elements of the U.S. election system.

The indictment, released Tuesday, charges that Trump sought to create confusion surrounding the outcome of the election, which he lost to President Joe Biden, by causing individuals in seven states to send fake election results, known as electoral votes, to Congress.

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