# Trump Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Enough Votes to Overturn Election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 3, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592 "2021-01-03T20:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/303 "2021-01-05T18:16:38Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > From the article: “you can’t get 73m votes and not win. You can’t have rallies like this and not win.” Sheesh. Nick Offerman narrating: “But you can.” ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/304 "2021-01-05T18:17:56Z")
“Look at the denominator, ma’am, look at the denominator!” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/305 "2021-01-05T18:19:18Z")
Dollars to donuts, if you asked that guy why he was wearing that shirt he would make some straw man argument about how if a man can claim to be woman he can claim to be black. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/306 "2021-01-05T18:30:52Z")
Or the Trump campaign is handing out free shirts and they are running out of the other ones. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/307 "2021-01-05T18:40:33Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > I don’t believe that song specifically mentions moving back to Georgia after leaving. 🤨 “Maybe it’s because I’m from Augusta, Georgia” & “Still in peaceful dreams I see/The road leads back to you, yeah” The song is about how wonderful and how comforting the idea of going back to Georgia is. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/308 "2021-01-05T18:54:41Z")
What **Ann\_Hedonia** said in post 276 . Excellent, concise post. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/309 "2021-01-05T19:15:11Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > It was only due to the Dems nominating a candidate who was massively unpopular, in her own right. No, not “in her own right”: due mostly to kremlin and GOP propaganda. Not to mention she wa sa woman. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/310 "2021-01-05T19:18:27Z")
Conceded. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/311 "2021-01-05T19:55:50Z")
Kemp and Raffensperger must be in agony. Either do their jobs and make Donald unhappy or take illegal actions and risk the consequences. Oh well, lie down with dogs yadda yadda. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/312 "2021-01-05T20:10:18Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > And then there’s this bit of brilliance: > > > Janie Lopez, 42, a counsellor from San Benito, Texas, agreed: “He wants to make sure they **cross the i’s and dot the t’s** and this is the final count. He wants to make sure this is a fair election.” I wonder what misbegotten species of “counsellor” she is, and what poor unfortunates have the redoubtable privilege of receiving her counsel. As for the picture in the article, every time I see any sort of picture of “Trump supporters” like this, I always feel like I’m at the zoo, looking at some of the specimens that are housed there, particularly in the simian section. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/313 "2021-01-05T20:17:39Z")
Simian? Really?! I’m getting much more of a ‘scavenging reptile’ vibe but maybe that’s just my biases at work. Stranger things have happened. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/314 "2021-01-05T20:29:00Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > WTH is a white guy in that picture wearing a “Blacks for Trump” shirt? That’s not an endorsement of Trump by any black people, just what a Trumpy white person _wants_ to be true. It’s probably just [Dean Browning](https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/11/10/21559458/dean-browning-dan-purdy-byl-holte-patti-labelle-twitter-gay-black-man), famous Black Gay Guy™ and Obama-hating Trump fan! ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/315 "2021-01-05T20:41:05Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > “Look at the denominator, ma’am, look at the denominator!” See, there’s your problem with democracy. The numerator is just fine for the Republicans, it’s that gosh darned denominator that we need to fix. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/316 "2021-01-05T20:42:09Z")
yeah - its common ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/317 "2021-01-05T21:01:10Z")
I completely concur. Very well said. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/318 "2021-01-05T21:04:06Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Oh well, lie down with dogs yadda yadda. Hey now, I have it on good authority that dogs prefer Biden at least 10 to 1. > [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Kemp and Raffensperger must be in agony. Either do their jobs and make Donald unhappy or take illegal actions and risk the consequences. But yeah, this is the problem when you want power for the sake of power, for personal enrichment, rather than for representing the needs of those you represent. ---
**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/319 "2021-01-05T21:10:54Z")
This is a pretty minor thing, and expecting any kind of numeracy from the Trump crowd is probably pissing against the wind, but a minor peeve of mine is that they didn’t need to find 11780 votes to flip the result, they needed to change half of the difference plus 1. In the audio, Trump seems content to settle for a 1 vote majority, so actually only needed 5900 votes changed. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/320 "2021-01-05T21:12:42Z")
I think Trump just wanted 11,780 votes created/added/conjured out of thin air. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/321 "2021-01-05T21:14:14Z")
Trump doesn’t claim these are valid votes that should have been Trump votes but were counted as Biden votes. He claims these were votes by dead people/illegal immigrants/people who came back to Georgia (which he believes, quote, “is not normal”) and therefore should be thrown out. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/322 "2021-01-05T21:15:56Z")
I took what he said to be to find 11,780 fraudulent votes to be disqualified. But then, I don’t know what goes through that addled brain of his. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592.md?page=17)