H/T Scissorhead Skinny-D

The AP tells us Michigan has had a change of plans:

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general is asking federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into 16 Republicans who submitted false certificates stating they were the state’s presidential electors despite Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in 2020.

Dana Nessel, a Democrat, disclosed Thursday that her office had been evaluating charges for nearly a year but decided to refer the matter to the U.S. attorney in western Michigan.

“Under state law, I think clearly you have forgery of a public record, which is a 14-year offense, and election law forgery, which is a five-year offense,” she told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. But the Justice Department, she said, is best suited to probe and potentially prosecute.

It’s not going to save our democracy, but it might put some bad players behind bars until the 4th Reich returns to power and Hair Füror pardons them (because it would not be state-level convictions. H/T Scissorhead BDR). And who knows? It might stop the next tranche of dummies from trying it again.