Trump may have violated state and federal law in votes call to Georgia secretary of state

[Judi Lynn]

President asked election boss to help him ‘find’ 11,780 votes to beat Joe Biden

Graeme Massie
Los Angeles
2 hours ago



Trump may have violated state and federal law in votes call to Georgia secretary of state (file picture)

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Donald Trump may have violated both state and federal law in his taped phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state.

In the hour-long conversation on Saturday the outgoing president asked Republican Brad Raffensperger to help him find votes to overturn his loss to Joe Biden.

Mr Trump said: “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”

He insisted: “There’s no way I lost Georgia. There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.”

The state’s election boss and other officials told Mr Trump that they could not help him as Mr Biden’s win had been fair and accurate.

Observers say that Mr Trump’s specific request to “find” a certain number of votes to overturn Mr Biden’s win and his vague reference that Mr Raffensperger and his officials could face criminal liability could have violated laws designed to prevent solicitation of election fraud.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-georgia-call-votes-law-b1781805.html

[dflprincess]

1. "May have"?

I think those two words could be removed from the headline.

[dem4decades]

2. When doesn't Trump violate Federal and State laws? The real news will be when

He's held accountable.

[Bayard]

3. He doesn't even bother to hide it anymore

Tapes and witnesses be damned! He just keeps getting away with everything, so he becomes more flagrant all the time.