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Right-wing figures including then-Pres. Trump put significant pressure on Georgia officials to overturn the 2020 election results after Biden won the state. We’re seeking records from the state and federal levels that could shed light on these efforts.
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In a Jan. 2 call with Georgia Sec. of State Raffensperger, Trump pressured Raffensperger’s office to “find” him votes. “All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” he said.
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The Washington Post also reported that Trump had made a similar push in a call with a Georgia election investigator the previous month, directing the investigator to “find the fraud.”
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We filed requests for records that could shed light on these and other attempts to undermine or overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, including records from the offices of Georgia’s secretary of state, governor, and attorney general.
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Long before Trump’s claims of a stolen election, though, efforts were already underway to undermine public confidence in the election’s integrity.
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We sued for records of the state’s voter fraud task force, and the lack of substantive information in the state’s response revealed the task force to be another way of promoting false narratives about widespread voter fraud. americanoversight.org/georgias-secre…

This investigation is part of our look into ongoing threats to democracy as well as our larger effort to track attempts to undermine the 2020 election results.

Read more about our efforts here: americanoversight.org/areas_of_inves…