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Pressuring
"I Won"
Dead Voters
Out-Of-State Votes
Shredding
State Farm Arena
Registration
Rally Size
Dominion Voting Machines
Trick: 'Big Numbers'
Trick: 'Hedging Language'
Requesting Private Data
Summary
Pressuring
Trump asks the GA team to 'find the votes'. Pressuring election officials to change the result of an election is illegal in the United Stats of America.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
You would be respected if, really respected if this thing could be straightened out before the election.
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Donald Trump
You would be respected if, really respected if this thing could be straightened out before the election.
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Donald Trump
And honestly, this should go very fast, you should meet tomorrow, because you have a big election coming up, and because of what you’ve done to the president, you know the people of Georgia know that this was a scam. And because of what you’ve done to the president, a lot of people aren’t going out to vote. And a lot of Republicans are going to vote negative, because they hate what you did to the president.
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Donald Trump
And honestly, this should go very fast, you should meet tomorrow, because you have a big election coming up, and because of what you’ve done to the president, you know the people of Georgia know that this was a scam. And because of what you’ve done to the president, a lot of people aren’t going out to vote. And a lot of Republicans are going to vote negative, because they hate what you did to the president.
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Donald Trump
I’m not looking to shake up the whole world, we won Georgia easily. We won it by hundreds of thousands of votes, but if you go by basic, simple numbers, we won it easily, easily.
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Donald Trump
I’m not looking to shake up the whole world, we won Georgia easily. We won it by hundreds of thousands of votes, but if you go by basic, simple numbers, we won it easily, easily.
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Donald Trump
Excuse me, but we don’t need it, because we’re only down 11,000 votes, and we don’t even need it. I personally think they’re corrupt as hell, but we don’t need that. All we have to do is find 11,000-plus votes. So we don’t need that.
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Donald Trump
Excuse me, but we don’t need it, because we’re only down 11,000 votes, and we don’t even need it. I personally think they’re corrupt as hell, but we don’t need that. All we have to do is find 11,000-plus votes. So we don’t need that.
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Donald Trump
And I know this phone call is going nowhere other than, other than ultimately, you know — Look, ultimately, I win,
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Donald Trump
And I know this phone call is going nowhere other than, other than ultimately, you know — Look, ultimately, I win,
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Donald Trump
We won the election, and it’s not fair to take it away from us like this. And it’s going to be very costly in many ways. And I think you have to say that you’re going to re-examine it, and you can re-examine it, but re-examine it with people that want to find answers, not people that don’t want to find answers.
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Donald Trump
We won the election, and it’s not fair to take it away from us like this. And it’s going to be very costly in many ways. And I think you have to say that you’re going to re-examine it, and you can re-examine it, but re-examine it with people that want to find answers, not people that don’t want to find answers.
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Donald Trump
But, but I’m just curious why wouldn’t, why do you keep fighting this thing?
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Donald Trump
But, but I’m just curious why wouldn’t, why do you keep fighting this thing?
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Donald Trump
So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break.
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Donald Trump
So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break.
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Donald Trump
You know, and I watched you this morning, and you said, uh, well, there was no criminality. But I, I mean, all of this stuff is very dangerous stuff. When you talk about no criminality, I think it’s very dangerous for you to say that.
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Donald Trump
You know, and I watched you this morning, and you said, uh, well, there was no criminality. But I, I mean, all of this stuff is very dangerous stuff. When you talk about no criminality, I think it’s very dangerous for you to say that.
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Donald Trump
Oh, I don’t know, look, Brad. I got to get — I have to find 12,000 votes, and I have them times a lot.
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Donald Trump
Oh, I don’t know, look, Brad. I got to get — I have to find 12,000 votes, and I have them times a lot.
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Donald Trump
So, that’s the story. Look, we need only 11,000 votes.
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Donald Trump
So, that’s the story. Look, we need only 11,000 votes.
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Donald Trump
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.
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Donald Trump
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.
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Donald Trump
That’s a criminal, that’s a criminal offense. And you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. And that’s a big risk.
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Donald Trump
That’s a criminal, that’s a criminal offense. And you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. And that’s a big risk.
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Donald Trump
I don’t even know why you have a side, because you should want to have an accurate election. And you’re a Republican.
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Donald Trump
I don’t even know why you have a side, because you should want to have an accurate election. And you’re a Republican.
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Donald Trump
The people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated
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Donald Trump
The people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated
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Donald Trump
I was hopeful that, you know, in a spirit of cooperation and compromise, is there, there’s something that we can at least have a discussion to look at some of these allegations to find a path forward that’s less litigious.
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Mark Meadows
I was hopeful that, you know, in a spirit of cooperation and compromise, is there, there’s something that we can at least have a discussion to look at some of these allegations to find a path forward that’s less litigious.
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Mark Meadows
And that was, that doesn’t play too well, and the Legislature there is, which is Republican, is extremely activist and angry.
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Donald Trump
And that was, that doesn’t play too well, and the Legislature there is, which is Republican, is extremely activist and angry.
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Donald Trump
Georgia Team
Georgia Team Quotes
The GA team did not respond to this pressure directly except to say that Trump's numbers were wrong.
Supporting Information
What federal law does it break?
A  federal law makes it illegal to attempt to “deprive or defraud” people of a “fair and impartially conducted election process.”
52 U.S. Code § 20511 - Criminal penalties
What state law does it break?
Georgia has a state law against “criminal solicitation to commit election fraud.”
52 U.S. Code 2016 Georgia Code Title 21 - Elections Chapter 2 - Elections and Primaries Generally Article 15 - Miscellaneous Offenses § 21-2-604. Criminal solicitation to commit election fraud; penalties§ 20511 - Criminal penalties
Summary
"I won"
Trump frequently claims he won the the state of Georgia.
Team Trump
Trump Team Quotes
As the Georgia politicians say, there is no way you lost Georgia, nobody, everyone knows I won it by hundreds of thousands of votes.
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Donald Trump
As the Georgia politicians say, there is no way you lost Georgia, nobody, everyone knows I won it by hundreds of thousands of votes.
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Donald Trump
I won this election by hundreds of thousands of votes. There’s no way I lost Georgia. There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.
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Donald Trump
I won this election by hundreds of thousands of votes. There’s no way I lost Georgia. There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.
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Donald Trump
I think I probably did win it by half a mill
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Donald Trump
I think I probably did win it by half a mill
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Donald Trump
We have all the votes we need. You know, we won the state.
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Donald Trump
We have all the votes we need. You know, we won the state.
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Donald Trump
So that’s it. I mean, we have many, many times the number of votes necessary to win this state. And we won the state, and we won it very substantially and easily.
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Donald Trump
So that’s it. I mean, we have many, many times the number of votes necessary to win this state. And we won the state, and we won it very substantially and easily.
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Donald Trump
I think it’s pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially, Georgia.
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Donald Trump
I think it’s pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially, Georgia.
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Donald Trump
Well, there’s no way they could — then they’re incompetent. They’re either dishonest or incompetent, OK?
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Donald Trump
Well, there’s no way they could — then they’re incompetent. They’re either dishonest or incompetent, OK?
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Donald Trump
Georgia Team
Georgia Team Quotes
Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong.
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Brad Raffensperger
Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong.
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Brad Raffensperger
Well, I’ve listened to what the president has just said. President Trump, we’ve had several lawsuits, and we’ve had to respond in court to the lawsuits and the contentions of — we don’t agree that you have won. We don’t, I didn’t agree about the 200,000 number that you mentioned. And I go through that point by point. What we had done is we gave our State Senate about one and a half hours of, of our time going through the election issue by issue. And then on the State House, the Government Affairs Committee, we gave them about two and a half hours of our time, going back point by point on all the issues of contention. And then just a few days ago, we met with our U.S. congressmen, Republican congressmen, and we gave them about two hours of our time talking about this past election.
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Brad Raffensperger
Well, I’ve listened to what the president has just said. President Trump, we’ve had several lawsuits, and we’ve had to respond in court to the lawsuits and the contentions of — we don’t agree that you have won. We don’t, I didn’t agree about the 200,000 number that you mentioned. And I go through that point by point. What we had done is we gave our State Senate about one and a half hours of, of our time going through the election issue by issue. And then on the State House, the Government Affairs Committee, we gave them about two and a half hours of our time, going back point by point on all the issues of contention. And then just a few days ago, we met with our U.S. congressmen, Republican congressmen, and we gave them about two hours of our time talking about this past election.
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Brad Raffensperger
Supporting Information
More info
The GA team repeatedly said Trump's numbers were wrong. So much so it wasn't worth including every quote. It will be more beneficial for you to click the other tabs and read their arguments on why Trump's numbers are wrong for each issue.
Summary
Dead Voters
Trump says many dead people voted.
Team Trump
Trump Team Quotes
Not even including that, that’s why I hardly even included that number, although in one state we have a tremendous amount of dead people, so I don’t know. I’m sure we do in Georgia, too. I’m sure we do in Georgia, too.
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Donald Trump
Not even including that, that’s why I hardly even included that number, although in one state we have a tremendous amount of dead people, so I don’t know. I’m sure we do in Georgia, too. I’m sure we do in Georgia, too.
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Donald Trump
And so we said there’s a universe of people who have the same name and same birth year and died.
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Cleta Mitchell
And so we said there’s a universe of people who have the same name and same birth year and died.
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Cleta Mitchell
What we said was, and if you look at, if you read our petition, it said that we took the names and birth years and, you know, we had certain information available to us.
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Cleta Mitchell
What we said was, and if you look at, if you read our petition, it said that we took the names and birth years and, you know, we had certain information available to us.
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Cleta Mitchell
The other thing, dead people, so dead people voted. And I think the, the number is in the close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number. And a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.
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Donald Trump
The other thing, dead people, so dead people voted. And I think the, the number is in the close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number. And a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.
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Donald Trump
Georgia Team
Georgia Team Quotes
I believe it was upward of 5,000. The actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. And so, that’s wrong, that was two.
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Brad Raffensperger
I believe it was upward of 5,000. The actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. And so, that’s wrong, that was two.
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Brad Raffensperger
Supporting Information
What was the Trump team's process?
The most important information explaining this mistake comes from Cleta Mitchel, one of Trump's lawyers. She states that Trump's team cross referenced the voter registry with obituaries, looking at two pieces of data: Birth year and Name.

For example.
  1. They check the obituaries and find a James Smith born in 1950 who is now deceased.
  2. They check the voter registry and find a James Smith born in 1950 that had voted.
  3. They assume that both are the same James Smith. And therefore that a dead person voted.
Why was the Trump team wrong?
Two people born in the same year can have the same name. In fact there are 38,000 people in the USA with the name James Smith. The Trump team made an incorrect assumption that no two people born in the same year could have the same name.

Those 5,000 'dead voters' are merely living voters with the same names and birth years of people who had died
Summary
Out-Of-State Votes
Trump argues some people voted out-of-state.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
The number who have registered out of state after they moved from Georgia. And so they had a date when they moved from Georgia, they registered to vote out of state. And then it’s like 4,500, I don’t have that number right in front of me.
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Cleta Mitchell
The number who have registered out of state after they moved from Georgia. And so they had a date when they moved from Georgia, they registered to vote out of state. And then it’s like 4,500, I don’t have that number right in front of me.
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Cleta Mitchell
Um, you had out-of-state voters, they voted in Georgia, but they were from out of state of 4,925.
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Donald Trump
Um, you had out-of-state voters, they voted in Georgia, but they were from out of state of 4,925.
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Donald Trump
Georgia Team
Georgia Team Quotes
Every one we’ve been through, are people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but then moved back to Georgia legitimately...This is they moved back in years ago. This was not like something just before the election. So there’s something about that data that, it’s just not accurate.
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Ryan Germany
Every one we’ve been through, are people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but then moved back to Georgia legitimately...This is they moved back in years ago. This was not like something just before the election. So there’s something about that data that, it’s just not accurate.
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Ryan Germany
Supporting Information
Summary
Trump's team only had data of people who had left Georgia. They didn't have data on how many of those people came back. So Trump's team incorrectly assumed these people had all voted out-of-state, when in reality they had just moved back.
Summary
Shredding
Trump says Fulton county is shredding ballots.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
Now, do you think it’s possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that’s what the rumor is.
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Donald Trump
Now, do you think it’s possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that’s what the rumor is.
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Donald Trump
And, you know, that’s not legal. And they supposedly shred. And I think they said 300 pounds of, 3,000 pounds of ballots.
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Donald Trump
And, you know, that’s not legal. And they supposedly shred. And I think they said 300 pounds of, 3,000 pounds of ballots.
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Donald Trump
This just came up this morning that they are burning their ballots, that they are shredding, shredding ballots and removing equipment.
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Donald Trump
This just came up this morning that they are burning their ballots, that they are shredding, shredding ballots and removing equipment.
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Donald Trump
Georgia Team
Georgia Team Quotes
The only investigation that we have into that — they have not been shredding any ballots. There was an issue in Cobb County where they were doing normal office shredding, getting rid of old stuff, and we investigated that.
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Ryan Germany
The only investigation that we have into that — they have not been shredding any ballots. There was an issue in Cobb County where they were doing normal office shredding, getting rid of old stuff, and we investigated that.
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Ryan Germany
Summary
State Farm Arena
Trump claims ballot stuffing occurred at State Farm Arena in Fulton County.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
She stuffed the ballot boxes. Let’s face it, Brad. I mean, they did it in slow motion replay, magnified. Right? She stuffed the ballot boxes. They were stuffed like nobody’s ever seen them stuffed before.
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Donald Trump
She stuffed the ballot boxes. Let’s face it, Brad. I mean, they did it in slow motion replay, magnified. Right? She stuffed the ballot boxes. They were stuffed like nobody’s ever seen them stuffed before.
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Donald Trump
And again, we have a version that you haven’t seen, but it’s, it’s, it’s magnified. It’s magnified. And you can see everything.
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Donald Trump
And again, we have a version that you haven’t seen, but it’s, it’s, it’s magnified. It’s magnified. And you can see everything.
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Donald Trump
But where were the poll watchers, Brad? There were no poll watchers there.
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Donald Trump
But where were the poll watchers, Brad? There were no poll watchers there.
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Donald Trump
Why did they say a water main broke, which they did, and which is reported in the newspapers? They said they left. They ran out because of a water main break, and there was no water main. There was nothing. There was no break. There was no water main break.
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Donald Trump
Why did they say a water main broke, which they did, and which is reported in the newspapers? They said they left. They ran out because of a water main break, and there was no water main. There was nothing. There was no break. There was no water main break.
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Donald Trump
They went to the apron, wrapped around the table, under which were thousands and thousands of ballots in a box that was not an official or a sealed box.
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Donald Trump
They went to the apron, wrapped around the table, under which were thousands and thousands of ballots in a box that was not an official or a sealed box.
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Donald Trump
Brad, why did they put the votes in three times? You know, they put ’em in three times.
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Donald Trump
Brad, why did they put the votes in three times? You know, they put ’em in three times.
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Donald Trump
I don’t care about the link. I don’t need it. Brad, I have a much better link.
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Donald Trump
I don’t care about the link. I don’t need it. Brad, I have a much better link.
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Donald Trump
And our estimate is that there were roughly 18,000 ballots. We don’t know that. If you know that …
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Cleta Mitchell
And our estimate is that there were roughly 18,000 ballots. We don’t know that. If you know that …
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Cleta Mitchell
It was 18,000 ballots, but they used each one three times.
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Donald Trump
It was 18,000 ballots, but they used each one three times.
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Donald Trump
Well, I don’t know about that.
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Cleta Mitchell
Well, I don’t know about that.
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Cleta Mitchell
Well, I do because we have it, we had ours magnified out.
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Donald Trump
Well, I do because we have it, we had ours magnified out.
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Donald Trump
Georgia Team
Georgia Team Quotes
We had our law enforcement officers talk to everyone who was, who was there after that event came to light. G.B.I. was with them as well as F.B.I. agents.
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Ryan Germany
We had our law enforcement officers talk to everyone who was, who was there after that event came to light. G.B.I. was with them as well as F.B.I. agents.
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Ryan Germany
Mr. President, we’ll send you the link from WSB.
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Brad Raffensperger
Mr. President, we’ll send you the link from WSB.
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Brad Raffensperger
Mr. President, they did not put that. We did an audit of that, and we proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times.
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Brad Raffensperger
Mr. President, they did not put that. We did an audit of that, and we proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times.
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Brad Raffensperger
You’re talking about the State Farm video. I think it’s extremely unfortunate that Rudy Giuliani or his people, they sliced and diced that video and took it out of context. So the next day, we brought in WSB-TV, and we let them show, see the full run of tape, and what you’ll see, the events that transpired are nowhere near what was, what was projected by,
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Brad Raffensperger
You’re talking about the State Farm video. I think it’s extremely unfortunate that Rudy Giuliani or his people, they sliced and diced that video and took it out of context. So the next day, we brought in WSB-TV, and we let them show, see the full run of tape, and what you’ll see, the events that transpired are nowhere near what was, what was projected by,
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Brad Raffensperger
Supporting Information
In depth and transparent response (for your own research)
The GA team have provided all answers to this complex event. I will provide a breakdown below, but feel free to view some of these sources.
Water main break.
Trump was wrong, or intentionally misleading, about the lack of a water main break. A urinal overflowed causing substantial water damage as seen in this screenshot (watch full video in the second link above). The image below shows the water damage discovered at 5:23 AM that morning.
Triple scanning ballots
Cleta Mitchell, Trump's lawyer, even says she doesn't know anything about this.

The investigation proved there was no triple scanning, and the mistake was simply because the Trump team didn't understand repeat scanning can be a part of the normal process when there is a machine glitch.
Mysterious table
A big part of the Trump team's argument, outlined in this video, is that a woman hid ballots under a table for them to be counted when everyone was gone.
But later on in the video we see a man adjust the table, and can see nothing underneath.
Mysterious ballot box/suitcases
Trump argues that they pulled ballots out of an unofficial container (other lawyers have called it a suitcase). This is untrue, the circled box is an official sealed container for ballots. It is the same container we see all over the ballot counting facility in this shot.
Where were the poll watchers
This is the most legitimate argument from the Trump campaign.

So what happened? Late at night the counters were told they were going home, so everyone packed up and the poll watchers left. But then a higher-up called and said the counting needed to continue. So the counters went back to work, and there was a delay before all the poll watchers could get in their cars and make it back.

However, poll watchers were present during the packed down and every camera angle has been reviewed to ensure the chain of custody for every container of ballots. Put simply, even though there were no poll watches for that time, the cameras have provided the same result.

Watch Gabriel Sterling's breakdown here.
So what happened overall?
Any situation can look strange or suspect if you over analyze it, or are desperately looking to find something that isn't there. The Trump team saw footage of people pulling ballots out from under a table and counting them, and thought this was suspicious.

It is completely normal. It is the usual process in a vote counting facility. Ballots are sealed, stored in multiple places, and then counted.

And even if it wasn't normal, this tape has been scrutinized over and over by multiple external bodies frame by frame who all found no wrong doing.
Summary
Registration
Trump argues people either didn't register, or were registering illegally.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
Smaller number, you had 904 who only voted where they had just a P.O., a post office box number, and they had a post office box number, and that’s not allowed.
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Donald Trump
Smaller number, you had 904 who only voted where they had just a P.O., a post office box number, and they had a post office box number, and that’s not allowed.
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Donald Trump
I believe it’s about 4,502 voters who voted but who weren’t on the voter registration list. So it’s five thou — 4,502 — who voted, but they were not on the voter registration roll, which they had to be.
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Donald Trump
I believe it’s about 4,502 voters who voted but who weren’t on the voter registration list. So it’s five thou — 4,502 — who voted, but they were not on the voter registration roll, which they had to be.
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Donald Trump
Georgia Team
Georgia Team Quotes
These claims were not addressed directly on the call, but have been refuted elsewhere (below).
Supporting Information
GA Secretary of State office comments
  • There cannot be a ballot issues to you if you are not registered to vote.
  • P.O. boxes were listed in the system because they were legitimate mailboxes in multi-family apartments. This is legal.
Summary
Rally Size
Trump claims his large rally sizes prove he won Georgia.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
And I could tell you by our rallies, I could tell you by the rally I’m having on Monday night, the place, they already have lines of people standing out front waiting. It’s just not possible to have lost Georgia.
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Donald Trump
And I could tell you by our rallies, I could tell you by the rally I’m having on Monday night, the place, they already have lines of people standing out front waiting. It’s just not possible to have lost Georgia.
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Donald Trump
You even see it by rally size, frankly. We’d be getting 25 to 30,000 people a rally, and the competition would get less than 100 people, and it never made sense,
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Donald Trump
You even see it by rally size, frankly. We’d be getting 25 to 30,000 people a rally, and the competition would get less than 100 people, and it never made sense,
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Donald Trump
Georgia Team
Georgia Team Quotes
The team did not feel the need to respond directly to this argument.
Supporting Information
  • This argument was not supported by any lawyers on the call.
  • Counting votes is a more accurate way to determine an election victory than measuring rally attendance.
  • Democrats had small rallies because Joe Biden respected social distancing rules.
Summary
Dominion Voting Machines
Trump claims Dominion voting machines played a part in the election fraud.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
They’re changing the equipment on the, on the Dominion machines. And, you know, that’s not legal.
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Donald Trump
They’re changing the equipment on the, on the Dominion machines. And, you know, that’s not legal.
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Donald Trump
We have not gone through your Dominion, so we can’t give them blessing. I mean, in other states we think we found tremendous corruption with Dominion machines, but we’ll have to see.
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Donald Trump
We have not gone through your Dominion, so we can’t give them blessing. I mean, in other states we think we found tremendous corruption with Dominion machines, but we’ll have to see.
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Donald Trump
I won’t give Dominion a pass because we’ve found too many bad things.
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Donald Trump
I won’t give Dominion a pass because we’ve found too many bad things.
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Donald Trump
Georgia Team
Georgia Team Quotes
I don’t believe that you’re really questioning the Dominion machines because we did a hand re-tally, a 1 percent re-tally of all the ballots and compared that to what the machine said. And it came up with virtually the same result. Then we did the recount. We’ve got virtually the same result. So I, I guess we could probably take that off the table.
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Brad Raffensperger
I don’t believe that you’re really questioning the Dominion machines because we did a hand re-tally, a 1 percent re-tally of all the ballots and compared that to what the machine said. And it came up with virtually the same result. Then we did the recount. We’ve got virtually the same result. So I, I guess we could probably take that off the table.
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Brad Raffensperger
Summary
Trick: 'Big Numbers'
Trump uses an old 'car salesman' trick with big numbers.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
I’m just going by small numbers when you add them up, they’re many times the 11,000.
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Donald Trump
I’m just going by small numbers when you add them up, they’re many times the 11,000.
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Donald Trump
And even if you cut ’em in half, cut ’em in half and cut ’em in half again, it’s more votes than we need.
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Donald Trump
And even if you cut ’em in half, cut ’em in half and cut ’em in half again, it’s more votes than we need.
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Donald Trump
But, but we, we only lost the state by 11 thous — by, by that number, 11,000 votes and 779. So with that being said, with just what we have. And, you know, with just what we have, we’re giving you minimum, minimum numbers, we’re doing the most conservative numbers possible. We’re many times, many, many times above the, the margin.
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Donald Trump
But, but we, we only lost the state by 11 thous — by, by that number, 11,000 votes and 779. So with that being said, with just what we have. And, you know, with just what we have, we’re giving you minimum, minimum numbers, we’re doing the most conservative numbers possible. We’re many times, many, many times above the, the margin.
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Donald Trump
You know, when you add them up, it’s many more times, it’s many times the 11,779 number.
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Donald Trump
You know, when you add them up, it’s many more times, it’s many times the 11,779 number.
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Donald Trump
But, but Brad, if you took the minimum numbers, we’re, we’re many, many times above the 11,779,
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Donald Trump
But, but Brad, if you took the minimum numbers, we’re, we’re many, many times above the 11,779,
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Donald Trump
The bottom line is when you add it all up, and then you start adding, you know, 300,000 fake ballots.
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Donald Trump
The bottom line is when you add it all up, and then you start adding, you know, 300,000 fake ballots.
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Donald Trump
Ballots were dropped in massive numbers, and we’re trying to get to those numbers, and we will have them. They’ll take a period of time certified. But, but, but they’re massive numbers and far greater than the 11,779.
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Donald Trump
Ballots were dropped in massive numbers, and we’re trying to get to those numbers, and we will have them. They’ll take a period of time certified. But, but, but they’re massive numbers and far greater than the 11,779.
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Donald Trump
We’re going to have an accurate number over the next two days with certified accountants, but an accurate number will be given, but it’s in the 50s of thousands,
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Donald Trump
We’re going to have an accurate number over the next two days with certified accountants, but an accurate number will be given, but it’s in the 50s of thousands,
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Donald Trump
We have at least two or three — anywhere from 250 to 300,000 ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls.
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Donald Trump
We have at least two or three — anywhere from 250 to 300,000 ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls.
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Donald Trump
This is my interpretation
Trump doesn't have the evidence required to actually prove the 11,780 counts of voter fraud he needs. So instead he throws baseless arguments out for 500,000 counts of voter fraud. This is an attempt to say, 'well at least 1% of them must be true'. In reality, none are true.

This is a simplistic negotiating tactic. You offer to sell a used car for 100 million dollars, in the the hope the buyer will suddenly think $100,000 is actually reasonably.

In reality. 500,000 unproven claims of voter fraud does not equal 12,000 proven claims of voter fraud. It equals zero. Every claim must be proven.
Summary
Trick: 'Hedging Language'
Trump finds a way to lie without any accountability.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
Then the other thing they said is in Fulton County and other areas, and this may or may not be true.
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Donald Trump
Then the other thing they said is in Fulton County and other areas, and this may or may not be true.
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Donald Trump
Now, do you think it’s possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that’s what the rumor is.
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Donald Trump
Now, do you think it’s possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that’s what the rumor is.
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Donald Trump
This is my interpretation
Trump likes to couch his lies in hedging language such as 'maybe', 'I heard' and 'someone told me'. Perhaps the most egregious of these was 'that's what the rumor is'.

This is his tactic to tell the lie, but know that if he is held accountable for the lie he can always claim that he, 'didn't really say that'.

The most famous example of this was his claim that it was 'just a retweet'.
Summary
Requesting Private Data
Trump's team requests private voter data for their investigation.
Trump Team
Trump Team Quotes
What I don’t understand is why wouldn’t it be in everyone’s best interest to try to get to the bottom, compare the numbers, you know, if you say, because — to try to be able to get to the truth, because we don’t have any way of confirming what you’re telling us.
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Cleta Mitchell
What I don’t understand is why wouldn’t it be in everyone’s best interest to try to get to the bottom, compare the numbers, you know, if you say, because — to try to be able to get to the truth, because we don’t have any way of confirming what you’re telling us.
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Cleta Mitchell
We do not have the internal numbers from the secretary of state, yet we have asked for it six times. I’ve sent a letter over to [inaudible] several times, requesting this information, and it’s been rebuffed every single time. So it stands to reason that if the information is not forthcoming, there’s something to hide. That’s the problem that we have.
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Kurt Hilbert
We do not have the internal numbers from the secretary of state, yet we have asked for it six times. I’ve sent a letter over to [inaudible] several times, requesting this information, and it’s been rebuffed every single time. So it stands to reason that if the information is not forthcoming, there’s something to hide. That’s the problem that we have.
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Kurt Hilbert
Georgia Team
GA Team Quotes
Things that, that you guys are entitled to get, and there are things that under law, we are not allowed to give out.
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Ryan Germany
Things that, that you guys are entitled to get, and there are things that under law, we are not allowed to give out.
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Ryan Germany
Supporting Information
What are the reasons against providing Trump's team with private voter data.
It's against the law to provide private voter details to a campaign. Voting is anonymous for a reason.

It is true that many of the Trump campaign's election fraud accusation mistakes were because they were acting on incomplete data. However that is not a valid reason to expect private citizen data that is protected by law. If you're a Trump supporter then ask yourself, how would you feel if after the 2016 election Hillary Clinton was given complete access to the personal information of everyone who voted for Trump?

Furthermore, the GA team are not "hiding" anything. They have been transparent in every stage of their investigation and utilized external bodies such as  both the G.B.I. and the F.B.I.

Additionally, these quotes prove that Trump's team knew they had incomplete data. Yet they still told their supporters that they were 100% certain of their claims, even though they clearly weren't. This was irresponsible and dangerous.
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