Report on Trump’s pressure on Raffensperger to ‘find’ the votes named most compelling of 2021

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Washington Post report on former President TrumpDonald TrumpHillicon Valley-warning of misinformation by Biden On The Money-Biden pleads: Don’t count Build Back Better Biden considering student loan freeze extension MORE forcing a top election official in Georgia to help him change the outcome of The 2020 election is the top story on Chartbeat in 2021.

Chartbeat is an online interaction tool used by news organizations and other publishers to track web traffic and other digital data.

The Post report, published Jan. 3 and written by national political reporter Amy Gardner, included a recording of a telephone conversation between Trump and Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state .

The piece details how Trump urged Raffensperger to “seek” enough votes to overthrow the election. Trump and his allies have maintained, without solid evidence, for some time that the 2020 presidential election has been tainted by widespread voter fraud.

However, several state and federal election officials including Raffensperger have stated there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Raffensperger stood by Trump’s call that the Georgia election was accurate.

“I just want to get 11,780 votes,” Trump said, according to the Post.

In a description of its top stories of the year, Chartbeat said it reviewed more than 33 million pieces of content, with a total of 368 billion minutes of interaction, which is the total amount of time visitors spent actively reading pages on sites that use Chartbeat.

Other stories in the top 10 include a review by the medical news outlet STAT comparing different coronavirus vaccines, a story in late January from Politico about National Guardsmen being told to leave U.S. capitol after the Jan. 6 attack and a CNN report about a mess of pardons handed out on Trump’s last day in office.

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