cnn's sara murray has details so what are you learning about what trump allies did in the weeks after the election? >> reporter: essentially, they were trump allies in seven states donald trump lost -- places like michigan, pennsylvania, arizona, who decided they were just gonna come up with fake certificates, and they were going to submit those to the nation archives and those fake certificates say donald trump was actually the winner of those states that he lost. now, the watchdog group american oversight found these documents, and essentially what these folks were doing is they were trying to mimic an official process that is part of the electoral college. you know, what happens is the governor signs a letter, essentially saying joe biden won our state. they submit that letter to the national archives. the national archives later submits that letter to congress. so, they have it for the official count of the electoral votes on january 6th. apparently, the trump allies thought they could just submit their own certificates and that would be fine. >> and these fake certificates would serve no legitimate electoral purpose since they have no signatures? >> they did not. they were not signed by a