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On Monday, the Georgia Secretary of State's office opened an inquiry to review a phone call between former President Trump and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

On January 2, former President Trump allegedly contacted Secretary Raffensperger requesting he 'find' enough votes to overturn Trump's loss in the state.

"Walter Jones, spokesman for Secretary of State Raffensperger confirmed to the investigation," the Daily Mail reported.

"The Secretary of State's office investigates complaints it received," Jones said. "The investigations are fact-finding and administrative in nature. Any further legal efforts will be left to the Attorney General."

The office's investigation is the result of a complaint made by George Washington University Law School professor John Banzhaf III, according to the filing.

In an emailed press release from Jan 4, Banzhaf said he filed a complaint with the secretary of state's office "requesting this matter be fully investigated." He demanded that action be taken to the fullest extent appropriate.

The Daily Mail reported:

"The complaint suggests Trump may have committed one or more violations of Georgia law, including conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with the performance of election duties, the release says."

"Investigators will present their findings to the state election board, which will then decide how to proceed."

"If the board believes there's evidence that a crime occurred, it could take action ranging from issuing a letter of reprimand to referring the case to Georgia's attorney general."

Transcript of the Phone Call

Meadows: Ok. Alright. Mr. President, everyone is on the line. This is Mark Meadows, the chief of staff. Just so we all are aware. On the line is secretary of state, and two other individuals. Jordan and Mr. Germany with him. You also have the attorneys that represent the president, Kurt and Alex and Cleta Mitchell — who is not the attorney of record but has been involved — myself and then the president. So Mr. President, I'll turn it over to you.

Trump: OK, thank you very much. Hello Brad and Ryan and everybody. We appreciate the time and the call. So we've spent a lot of time on this and if we could just go over some of the numbers, I think it's pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially in Georgia. You even see it by rally size, frankly. We'd be getting 25-30,000 people a rally and the competition would get less than 100 people. And it never made sense.