Nevada prosecutors have refiled criminal charges against the six Republican “fake electors” who tried to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat in that state.

Ford filed the charges of “ uttering a forged instrument ” for a second time in Carson City this week after a judge dismissed an initial indictment in Clark County earlier this year, ruling the prosecutor filed it in the wrong venue, the Associated Press reports.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford confirmed he plans to challenge Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV) in the state’s 2026 gubernatorial race. This week’s announcement made him the first Nevada Democrat to publicly state his intentions and the highest-profile member of his party to consider a bid to oust Lombardo.

Trump lost in 2020 to Biden by more than 30,000 votes in Nevada. An investigation by then-Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, a Republican, found no credible evidence of widespread voter fraud in the state.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford said he's keeping the statute of limitations from running out on 2020 election effort to help Donald Trump.

The Nevada Attorney General's Office has refiled charges against the six so-called "fake electors" who submitted documentation saying former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election when he lost.

Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Thursday his office refiled charges in the so-called “fake electors” case in Carson City, months after the case failed in Clark County. “We have filed these charges in Carson City as a preemptive measure to ensure that the statute of limitations on this charge does not lapse,

Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford announced Thursday that charges have been filed in the Carson City Justice Court against six Nevadans involved in the 2020