Marener
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Technically Trump was asking Georgia to eliminate some legal votes, not manufacture new ones. Just eliminate enough votes to make him the winner. He didn’t demand they invent 10,000 votes, he demanded they get rid of 11,780 votes. Just enough so that he would win.Looking for votes isn't the same thing as creating them, Marener. If Trump had called up and demanded that they manufacture 10,000 votes for him then he'd be guilty. He didn't do that. He called and asked them to look for votes. LOOK FOR THEM!
Alternate electors IS an option...not one that was viable...but it had been done before. It's not illegal. It's not fraudulent. That's something that is decided in a court of law.
How is what Trump did any different than what Al Gore did in Florida? Gore's seeking to change vote totals in Florida would have "eliminated" the votes of millions of Americans if he'd been successful! That doesn't mean he was engaged in "fraud" when he asked for multiple recounts!
Fake electors were used back in the 19th century when elections were super corrupt. They’re not legal. The fact that they were used back when elections were corrupt doesn’t prove anything. Fake electors are fraudulent electors and their intent was to defraud the government and take away our legal votes.
Gore asked the state to do recounts by going through the courts. He was asking for more votes to be counted, not fewer.
Trump started with the courts but then he kept losing. So he went around the courts and tried illegal corrupt maneuvers to take away our votes. He wasn’t asking for recounts. He was asking for a specific outcome by specifically taking away specific democratic votes because he didn’t like how they voted.