FBI raids Fulton County election office seeking ballots from Trump’s 2020 loss
The FBI raided Fulton County’s election operations center Wednesday, an action apparently connected to the Trump administration’s long-held, but unproven, belief that Fulton’s handling of the 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud.
Reached by phone Wednesday, Fulton County Court Clerk Ché Alexander said a large number of federal agents were retrieving boxes of ballots from the warehouse where they were being stored.
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- All physical ballots from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County, all in-person, absentee and other ballots and absentee ballot envelopes.
- All tabulator tapes for every voting machine used in Fulton County.
- All ballot images produced during the original ballot count beginning on Nov. 3, 2020.
- All voter rolls from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County from absentee, early voting, in person, and any other voter roll.
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Greg Bluestein is the Atlanta Journal Constitution's chief political reporter. He is also an author, TV analyst and co-host of the Politically Georgia podcast.
Caleb Groves is a general assignment reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's politics team and a Kennesaw State University graduate.
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