The two attorneys, Jim Troupis and Kenneth Chesebro, and the aide who directed Election Day operations in 2020, Mike Roman, all initially faced one felony forgery charge in the state that was filed in June.

Now, each man faces ten more felony charges, being accused of defrauding the ten presidential electors who cast votes for Trump. The charges come two days before the men are scheduled for their initial court appearances in Dane County Circuit Court.

Each of the 11 felony charges has a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The Wisconsin complaint alleges the three men created a document falsely claiming Trump won the state’s 10 Electoral College votes and then tried to deliver it to former Vice President Mike Pence.

The complaint filed on Tuesday stated the majority of the 10 electors said they needed to sign the elector certificate stating Trump had won in order to preserve his legal options if a court altered the outcome of the election in the state.

Chesebro allegedly orchestrated the plan to file the fake elector certificates, and Troupis, Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin, is accused of assisting him in organizing the fake electors. Roman also allegedly attempted to deliver the falsified paperwork to former Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021.

The complaint said a majority of the electors told the investigators that they didn’t think their signatures on the certificate would be provided to Congress without a formal court ruling first.

Before the 10 new charges were added, Troupis filed four motions in an attempt to dismiss the charge against him, claiming that having the electors sign the certificate was only done to preserve Trump’s legal options in case they filed a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s vote. The U.S. Supreme Court sided in Trump’s favor.

Troupis’s second motion argued that they should proceed under federal law rather than state law and that the charges he faced couldn’t be brought in state court. The third motion called to dismiss the case, claiming there were no crimes listed in the complaint.

The final motion requested a dismissal once again, as election crimes can only be introduced by the county district attorney, not the state’s attorney general. However, Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, was the one to file the Wisconsin charges in June.

Federal prosecutors investigating the scheme claim that the fake electors’ plan began in the Badger State.

This is the first development on the case in Wisconsin since Chesebro and Troupis settled a lawsuit brought against them in 2022 regarding their plan to overturn the 2020 election in the state. There are currently pending charges related to the fake electors‘ scheme in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada.

Roman and Chesebro were two of the 18 people indicted alongside Trump by a Fulton County grand jury in the 2023 Georgia election case. Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing false documents. The judge then tossed out the charge he pleaded guilty to in September, leaving him to try and invalidate the plea.

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Three other people pleaded guilty in the Georgia election case.

Roman pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges in Georgia and pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in Arizona’s fake electors case.