Federal agents executed a search warrant at Fulton County’s main election operations center in Georgia on Wednesday (January 28), seeking records related to the 2020 presidential election as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged voter fraud.
The FBI confirmed they were conducting “a court authorized law enforcement action” at the facility in Union City, Georgia, according to a statement provided to Politico. The agency declined to provide specific details about what agents were searching for, noting only that the investigation was ongoing.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter indicated the search is connected to efforts by the Department of Justice to seize election records from the 2020 presidential contest. Fulton County Court Clerk Ché Alexander told local media that “FBI agents are here to get the 2020 ballots.”
This raid follows President Donald Trump‘s recent statement that “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did” regarding the 2020 presidential election. The president made these remarks last week while speaking at Davos, where he claimed the election was “rigged” and that “everybody now knows that. They found out.”
The metro Atlanta county has long been central to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Fulton County includes Atlanta and has been a focal point of President Trump’s claims that the election was stolen from him, though these allegations have not been substantiated with evidence.
In December, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Fulton County seeking access to ballots and other election records from the 2020 presidential vote. This legal action came after far-right members of Georgia’s GOP-controlled election board requested federal assistance in obtaining these materials.
Fulton County Commissioner Mo Ivory, a Democrat, expressed concern about the timing and purpose of the raid. “This is an effort to scare people, to deter people from going to the polls in May for our primary and then November for the general election,” Ivory said. “We knew this was coming. We could see the strategy working itself out.”
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