Trying To Influence The Results Of The US Presidential Election, Donald Trump Could Be Jailed

JAKARTA - United States President Donald Trump has the potential to violate the US Federal Law and the Georgia State Law. This is related to the leaking of a recorded telephone conversation between Trump and Georgia State Secretary Brad Raffensperger regarding changes to the results of the US Presidential Election in Georgia.

Trump wants to recount the results of the US Presidential Election in Georgia. He wants to get 11,780 votes. Meanwhile, the results of the US Presidential Election vote there after auditing and recounting, still won Joe Biden with 11,779 votes.

Reporting on euronews Tuesday, January 5, journalist Ray Suarez said the shocking footage could potentially lead to Trump facing charges with a maximum prison sentence of five years.

One law Trump could potentially violate is the Georgia State Act, which prohibits criminal requests for offenses that could affect elections.

Quoted from Reuters, the Law prohibits a person from deliberately requesting, ordering or trying to get others involved in fraudulent election results.

Meanwhile in the US Federal Law, it also prohibits any attempt to change or deceive the public from an election process that is carried out fairly and impartially. Some legal experts believe Trump may have violated one or both of these laws.

"The phone call was a flagrant federal criminal offense. It appears that Trump used threats to encourage Raffensperger to change the legal vote tally," said Professor Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School.

Separately, Georgia State University Law Professor Anthony Michael Kreis said the key to this problem lies in the question, whether Trump really asked Raffensperger to falsify the sura or just conveyed his opinion on the results of the US Presidential Election.

"Trump's request to find a specific number of votes to make his vote over Biden suggests Trump is trying to change the outcome of the US presidential election accompanied by threatening Raffensperger if he doesn't help him," Kreis explained.

The severity of this problem is understandable, because Georgia is an important state in the US Presidential Election. In the 2016 US Presidential Election, Donald Trump won in Georgia.

"It is illegal under federal law and the Georgian law to request fraud of election results. And prosecuting election officials to find votes for him (Trump) is a grave threat," said Duke University Law Professor and former Federal Attorney Lisa Kern Griffin.

"Trying to change the vote tally beyond the official tally, after the court rejected the post-election filing, is a serious matter in federal and state law," said Florida State University Law Professor Michael Morley.