Who are the 18 indicted co-conspirators in the Arizona fake electors’ scheme?

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The indictment states that she arranged “the fake electors’ vote” on December 14, 2020, when she voted for Trump-Pence as a fake elector and falsely stating that she was “duly elected and qualified.” After casting her vote, she declared the Arizona Republican electors as the “true electors.” On December 14, 2020, the Republican Party of Arizona tweeted its plan to “convene to cast votes” for Mr Trump, she replied, “Oh yes we did! Maggie Haberman of the New York Timesreported that Ms Ward told Mr Pence’s then-Chief of Staff Marc Short in late 2020 that the Arizona Republican party would not have joined a lawsuit claiming that the vice president “could accept and reject electors at will had Trump not been okay with it.” She was born and raised in West Virginia and later earned a medical degree from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, where she met her now-husband Michael Ward, who is also a defendant in the case. “He also pressured the legislature in Arizona and six other states to change the outcome of the election,” citing urging the “then-Arizona Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers to convene a Special Session to decertify Arizona’s presidential electors, telling him to “just do it and let the court sort it out.” Additionally, on the same day, the attorney went to the White House to meet with Unindicted Coconspirator 1, Vice President Pence, and others “to convince Pence to reject or at least delay the confirmation of the lawfully chosen electors two days later at the Joint Session of Congress.” Mr Bowers testified to the House January 6 Committee in 2022 that Mr Eastman contacted him in early January, encouraging him to schedule a vote to “decertify the electors because we had plenary authority to do so.” John Eastman sits in Fulton Superior Court in Atlanta during a hearing on January 19, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia The then-Arizona Republican Speaker of the House added, “I took an oath — for me to take that, to do what you do would be counter to my oath.” A lawyer for Mr Eastman told The Arizona Republic after the indictment had been handed down: “Dr. Jenna Ellis Ms Ellis was described as a former attorney for the Trump Campaign who “worked closely with lobbied Arizona’s Republican legislators after the 2020 presidential election to disregard the popular vote in Arizona.” “She additionally helped organize the false Arizona Republican electors’ votes on December 14, 2020,” the indictment says.