FBI Makes New Move In Arizona County At Center Of 2020 Election Controversy

The FBI seized election data from Maricopa County, Arizona, as the bureau expands its investigation into suspected election tampering, Just The News reported on Sunday night.

The FBI has kept the Maricopa County record seizure under wraps, but Just The News cited “multiple people familiar” with the probe who said that FBI agents are receiving gigabytes worth of data through a grand jury subpoena. The investigation into Maricopa County election records comes just a month after the FBI raided an election office in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a 2020 election interference probe.

President Donald Trump celebrated the report of the FBI election data seizure, writing on Truth Social Monday morning, “Great!!!”

The Daily Wire reached out to the FBI for comment.

Trump continues to push for stronger election laws, including voter ID requirements and more restrictions on mail-in ballots, across the country as the 2026 midterms near. Maricopa County was scrutinized following Trump’s 2020 election loss to former President Joe Biden over allegations that hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally counted.

After the 2020 election, the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate investigated Maricopa County’s ballot-counting process and found that more than 200,000 ballots were counted without being reviewed, despite containing mismatched signatures. Then, in 2024, election observers filed a report after noticing blank and filled-out absentee ballots in the same warehouse on election night, Just The News reported.

A Republican and a Democrat observer also included photos in their report, which showed heavily guarded absentee ballots. While that report has not been released to the public, Just The News’ sources said it was one of the reasons for the subpoena, which authorized the FBI to obtain Maricopa County election data.

Maricopa County, which surrounds Phoenix, has played a pivotal role in determining the state’s outcome and its 11 electoral votes in recent elections. Trump won the county in his first presidential race in 2016 and then again in 2024, but Trump lost Maricopa County and Arizona to Biden in the contentious 2020 election.

Trump maintains that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him as states counted an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots, and Biden won the election with a record number of votes. A Republican-led audit of the 2020 election results from Maricopa County found that the initial results were “within a few hundred” votes of the recount and did not change the overall result.

As Trump continues to claim that he was cheated out of the White House in 2020, he is pushing for the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act before the vital 2026 midterm elections. The legislation would require states to check voter IDs to ensure that only U.S. citizens cast ballots.

The SAVE America Act passed the House last month, but it has stalled in the Republican-led Senate. Trump said on Sunday that he would not sign any other legislation until it is sent to his desk.