FBI Raids Fulton County Office As Part Of 2020 Election Interference Probe

The FBI executed a search warrant at an election office in Fulton County, Georgia — just outside of Atlanta — on Wednesday. The raid was related to a federal government probe into allegations of interference in the 2020 election that President Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden, Reuters reported.

FBI agents searched the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Fairburn, where they were looking to take custody of Fulton County election ballots from 2020, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. The Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center was opened in 2023 and is used to modernize election operations. The FBI said the search warrant was signed by a magistrate judge, but did not confirm what the warrant was for, according to Fox 5.

“The FBI is conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity. No other information is available at this time,” the FBI told The Daily Wire when reached for comment.

Since losing the 2020 election to Biden, Trump has claimed that Fulton County had major issues with counting ballots, such as counting ballots twice. Biden narrowly defeated Trump in Georgia in 2020, partly thanks to his wide margin of victory in Fulton County. Last month, Fulton County admitted it violated election procedures during the 2020 election, saying that more than 130 tabulator tapes used for around 315,000 early in-person votes were not signed, and 10 more tapes were reported missing.

Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, however, said that missing signatures do not mean that the votes should be invalidated. Raffensperger assured the public that Georgia’s voter ID laws were still followed and that the results had been audited.

“Georgia has the most secure elections in the country and all voters were verified with photo ID and lawfully cast their ballots,” Raffensperger said. “A clerical error at the end of the day does not erase valid, legal votes.”

Last month, the Justice Department sued the clerk of Fulton County superior and magistrate courts in an attempt to obtain documents from the 2020 election. The Justice Department said that it was seeking to ascertain “Georgia’s compliance with various federal election laws.” The Justice Department argues that the clerk’s refusal to hand over the documents violates the Civil Rights Act.

Fulton County was also the center of the election case against Trump that alleged the president attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump was indicted on racketeering charges in Fulton County in 2023 following an investigation by Democratic District Attorney Fani Willis. The case against Trump, however, was dismissed after it was revealed that Willis had a romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

Trump was also indicted on election-related charges in a federal case led by former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, who investigated Trump while Biden was in office. Smith recently defended his effort to go after Trump during a congressional testimony last week and said that Georgia was “ground zero” for Trump’s efforts to allegedly overturn the 2020 election. Smith argued that Trump pushed “knowingly false claims of fraud” to keep claims of a stolen election alive.

Smith filed a motion to dismiss the case against Trump after he won the 2024 election.