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The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack said Friday it had issued subpoenas to 14 people linked to the fake-elector effort that unfolded after the 2020 election. The committee said the people had met as purported alternate electors for Donald Trump in seven states won by Joe Biden, and that it wanted records and testimony about how the effort was organized. Judd Deere, a former White House spokesman in the Trump administration, was among those reported to have been subpoenaed. citeturn0search0turn0search2

The committee said the subpoenas were part of its work on the attack on the Capitol and the events surrounding it. According to the panel, the inquiry was focused on the effort to transmit fake Electoral College certificates from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and on whether those documents were meant to help delay or block Congress from certifying the legitimate results on January 6, 2021. citeturn0search0turn0search2

The alternate-elector gambit was one of several post-election efforts Trump allies used to keep the race in dispute after Biden had won the states in question. The certificates they signed had no legal force, but they were drafted to mirror official Electoral College paperwork closely enough to be presented as if they were valid. The Jan. 6 committee’s move put that paper trail squarely inside its broader investigation of how the attempt to reverse the election reached from state-level activists into Trump-adjacent circles. citeturn0search0turn0search2turn0search4