what was illegal about the call? coercion? I don't know the election statutes...
He literally tried to overthrow the election in GA committing multiple crimes in the process
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Georgia has a state law against “criminal solicitation to commit election fraud.” That law makes it illegal for a person to intentionally solicit, request, command or otherwise attempt to cause another person to engage in election fraud.
A separate federal law makes it illegal to attempt to “deprive or defraud” people of a “fair and impartially conducted election process.”
It is illegal under both federal law and Georgia statutes to solicit the commission of election fraud, and it is hard to interpret the president’s threatening call demanding that election officials ‘find’ votes for him otherwise,” said Duke University School of Law professor Lisa Kern Griffin, a former federal prosecutor.
Explainer: Did Trump break the law by pressuring a Georgia election official to 'find' votes?