# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/323 "2021-01-05T21:21:40Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pLuv-ar52pI/maxresdefault.jpg "The Trial - Pink Floyd: The Wall Movie (HD 720p)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLuv-ar52pI) About 3.40: The evidence before the Court is uncontrovertible There’s no need for the jury to retire In all my years of judging I have never heard before Of someone more deserving the full penalty of law! The way you made them suffer, your exquisite wife and mother Fills me with an urge to defecate! I guess the thing about the mother and wife is some kind of metaphor, the rest I take literally. A great prophet, this Pink. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/324 "2021-01-05T21:28:27Z")
i would have liked him to ask the president. “what exactly would you like me to do?” “where am i to find the votes you want?” “do i subtract from biden and give them to you?” “how do i do this after the votes have been certified, and electors have voted?” get him to be specific. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/325 "2021-01-05T21:29:15Z")
Wouldn’t work. Trump fancies himself an executive, and details are for the underlings/minions/little people. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/326 "2021-01-05T21:30:03Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > i would have liked him to ask the president. “what exactly would you like me to do?” “where am i to find the votes you want?” “do i subtract from biden and give them to you?” “how do i do this after the votes have been certified, and electors have voted?” “recalculate” That’s all he had to do. Imagine for a second what the reaction would be (hopefully) if the Georgia Secretary of State, after the election was certified, and the EC votes submitted, just said one day “we’ve recalculated and Trump won.” ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/327 "2021-01-05T21:35:12Z")
recalculate…like a gps thing? that could land you in some really deep hot water. raffensperger is on cnn now. he keeps saying “he (trump) has bad data”. that is his answer for nearly everything. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/328 "2021-01-05T21:44:52Z")
It’s not “bad data.” Trump has a [head full of bad wiring.](https://genius.com/Tokyo-blade-head-full-of-bad-wiring-lyrics) ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/329 "2021-01-05T22:04:48Z")
Will raffy willingly change from “has bad data” to “is 100% full of shit” after 1/20? ---
**Author:** ![agzem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@agzem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agzem)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/330 "2021-01-05T23:42:35Z")
I’ve noted on the other thread that I thought replying to a moderator was private and visible on to the moderator. I’ve tried to delete this but it says I have to wait 13 hours. Why can’t I delete it now instead of waiting? Can a moderator delete it? ---
**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, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/331 "2021-01-05T23:43:52Z")
Dunno about Discourse but the way the SDMB used to work is, you had 5 minutes to edit your post before it is locked forever. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/332 "2021-01-05T23:45:49Z")
Send a PM, or start a thread in ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/333 "2021-01-05T23:53:34Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Dunno about Discourse but the way the SDMB used to work is, you had 5 minutes to edit your post before it is locked forever. This is still the case on the Discourse version of the SDMB, as well. ---
**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, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/334 "2021-01-05T23:53:51Z")
Famously there was a poster who left his computer on, and someone else used his SDMB account to post that he enjoys intercourse with sheep. Hal Bristol or something like that was his name. ---
**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 6, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/335 "2021-01-06T00:01:46Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Famously there was a poster who left his computer on, and someone else used his SDMB account to post that he enjoys intercourse with sheep. Maybe it was one of the sheep? ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/336 "2021-01-06T00:02:32Z")
What’s so wrong about talking with sheep? The Republicans make a living out of it. ---
**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 6, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/337 "2021-01-06T00:16:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s not “bad data.” > > Trump has a [head full of bad wiring.](https://genius.com/Tokyo-blade-head-full-of-bad-wiring-lyrics) “Bad data” is the kind, gentle euphemism for it. Many people possessing “bad data” in this fashion are involuntarily committed to psychiatric hospitals. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/338 "2021-01-06T00:40:23Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I really can’t tell if she’s having us on or not… Oh c’mon man, it’s not rocket surgery! ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/339 "2021-01-06T00:41:52Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > They know Dominion allegations will go nowhere Obligatory: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/H6yQOs93Cgg/maxresdefault.jpg "It's a fake!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yQOs93Cgg) (for those who have not seen Deep Space Nine, this is an episode where Sisko is trying to trick the Romulans using fabricated evidence so they will join the war… against the Dominion) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/340 "2021-01-06T00:53:56Z")
If you want to reply to the moderator, you don’t do it by clicking on the “reply” button. Ideally, you’d go to ATMB; a back door method would be to flag the post, and select “something else.” I can’t imagine the mods would enthusiastically endorse this strategy though, because among other things, the message would go to all of the mods on the subforum. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/341 "2021-01-06T02:20:04Z")
Or you could just PM the individual moderator. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/342 "2021-01-06T03:02:50Z")
Or, you could learn from this and change your ways… (I know, I’m still young and naive…) The analogy would be: instead of arguing with the ref, and following him off the field trying to defend yourself, you could stop and think “Hmmm, if everyone says grabbing facemasks is wrong, maybe I should stop…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592.md?page=18)