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The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to show at its fourth hearing today that Donald Trump and top advisers coordinated the scheme to send fake slates of electors as part of an effort to return him to the White House.

What happened with the fake electors? After the authorized Democratic electors met at statehouses to formally name Biden as president, in seven battleground states, illegitimate Republican electors arrived too. The Trump electors were turned away but they signed fake election certificates that declared they were the duly elected and qualified" electors certifying Trump as the winner.

What has this got to do with what happened on January 6? The scheme was conceived in an effort to create dueling" slates of electors that Pence could use to pretend the election was in doubt and refuse to formalize Biden's win at the congressional certification on January 6.

Delays in the law enforcement response have been the focus of the federal, state and local investigation of the massacre and its aftermath. Questions about the law enforcement response began days after the massacre. On 2 June, the state senator Roland Gutierrez said there was a system failure".