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

An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 individuals for their role in an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election in favour of Donald Trump by falsely certifying the state’s 2020 election results.

The state’s Attorney General Kris Mayes released the names of 11 of those charged, explaining that seven of the defendants’ names have been redacted but will be released “after all defendants have been served.”

Disgraced former New York City Mayor Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani appears to be among the defendants from the redacted group.

The indictment accuses the defendants of committing “the lawful transfer of the presidency of the United States, keepingPresident Donald J Trump in office against the will of Arizona voters, and depriving Arizona voters of their right to vote and have their votes counted.”

The defendants’ scheme relied on their false claims to be “duly elected and qualified” electors, the filing says.

The plot ultimately failed when then-Vice President Mike Pence certified the election for Joe Biden after the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The 11 indicted individuals who were named were selected to be the state’s Republican Party Presidential Electors in 2020. Each was charged with the same nine counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery.

Here is what we know about those indicted:

An outspoken Trump supporter, Dr Ward was the chair of the Arizona Republican party from 2019 through 2023. Before that, she served as a state Senator from 2013 through 2015, when she resigned to run for a US Senate seat in 2016; she lost in the GOP primary to incumbent Senator John McCain. She was defeated in another bid for the US Senate in 2018.

The indictment states that she arranged the “the fake electors’ vote” on December