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After Donald Trump urged a change in the results of the Georgia state elections, Democrats want to launch FBI investigations into the outgoing US president. Trump’s call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger contained calls to violate election laws, Congressmen Ted Lieu and Kathleen Rice argued in a letter to FBI Chief of the U.S. Federal Police, Christopher Wray, on Monday.
A recording of the hour-long phone call was released on Sunday. Trump said, among other things, that he wanted 11,780 votes found for the state to go to him. “I can’t have lost Georgia.” Democrats Lieu and Rice emphasized: “The evidence of Trump’s electoral fraud has now come to light.” A Democrat on the Georgia Elections Commission, David Worley, also called for an investigation into Trump.
Democrat Joe Biden won in Georgia in the November 3 election with just under 12,000 votes. As in other states, Trump’s side spoke of electoral fraud, but was unable to present any evidence of it. The results were counted twice in Georgia, so the end result changed only slightly. Raffensperger reiterated that no evidence of widespread voter fraud had been discovered.
Before Biden’s inauguration on January 20, the results of the individual states will be certified in the US Congress on Wednesday. Some Republicans in the House and Senate have announced that they will appeal the results of individual states during the proceedings. Disruptive action may delay confirmation of Biden’s election victory by a few hours, but it has no prospect of changing anything in the election outcome.
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