The effort to overturn the 2020 election by organizing slates of alternate electors for President Donald Trump began in the swing state of Wisconsin. Now, the fitful attempt to hold those organizers accountable might hang on what happens there.

On Monday, three people charged in what became known as the “fake electors” plan are in court for a pretrial hearing in a case that is one of a vanishing few still moving forward.

Trump electors were central to the campaign’s attempt on Jan. 6, 2021, to prevent Joe Biden from being certified as winner of the 2020 election. Mr. Trump’s lawyers sought to strong-arm Vice President Mike Pence into delaying the vote tally by Congress on the grounds that several states, including Wisconsin, had submitted “dual slates” of electors.

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