ATLANTA — A phony elector who participated in an effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election is a leading candidate for the state Senate, embraced by Republican lawmakers and candidates since winning the primary election in May.
Shawn Still, the GOP nominee for a Senate district north of Atlanta, was the secretary for a group of 16 Republicans who met behind closed doors in the Georgia Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, to cast the state's votes for Donald Trump and signed their names to a document claiming that they were "duly elected and qualified electors."
Still and the other fake electors — including state Sen. Burt Jones, who is the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor — are now targets of a criminal investigation.
