The Criminal Agreement and Acts to Effect the Object of the Conspiracy

The defendant's use of deceit to get state officials to subvert the legitimate election results and change electoral votes is described below. On November 13, 2020, the defendant had a conversation with his campaign manager who informed him that a claim that had been circulating, that a substantial number of non-citizens had voted in Arizona was false. Eight days before Arizona's governor certified the ascertainment of the state's legitimate electors based on the popular vote, the defendant and co-conspirator 1 called the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives and made knowingly false claims of election fraud aimed at interfering with the ascertained voting by Arizona's electors. They also asked the Arizona House Speaker to call the legislature into