(The Center Square) – The FBI on Wednesday executed a search warrant on the Fulton County, Ga., election headquarters to obtain voting records related to the 2020 election.
According to Democratic Georgia state Sen. Josh McLaurin, who is running for lieutenant governor and is at the scene, the FBI is interested in about 700 boxes of ballots from the 2020 election. He told The Center Square he got the information from speaking to Fulton County elections office personnel.
Fulton County Commissioner Mo Ivory said the feds removed pallets of boxes Wednesday. At the back of the warehouse, agents could be seen loading boxes into rental trucks backed up to loading docks.
The FBI’s warrants, issued to county Superior and Magistrate Courts Clerk Che Alexander, were for all 2020 ballots including absentees, Ivory said. They also covered 2020 voter rolls.
The commissioner said the county has a team of lawyers looking for ways to fight back.
“All of us are trying to come together to figure out what to do next,” Ivory said. “We’re under assault. I think you know that.”
Fulton County Republican Party Chair Julie Adams disagreed.
“The DOJ wrote to Fulton County in August of last year, asking for the ballots. DOJ wrote another letter in October asking again for the 2020 ballots and other records. Two weeks ago, the FBI delivered a third letter,” Adams said in a statement posted to X. “But the majority of the Fulton County Board of Elections literally denied these requests. The Georgia State Election Board has been trying for 4 years to get the records. Including issuing a subpoena for the ballots and other records. And ALL of those efforts have failed. Until today.”
Outside access to the 2020 ballots has been at the center of several ongoing legal disputes. The State Election Board has subpoenaed them. The U.S. Department of Justice has sued twice seeking ballots and voter information.
McLaurin said agents came from the main FBI office, not the local FBI office in Atlanta.
He blamed the raid on what he called President Donald Trump’s “conspiracy theories.” McLaurin said Trump is trying to “vindicate his agenda” and distract from recent violence in Minneapolis.
Garland Favorito, who leads the nonprofit VoterGA, has been in litigation for five years attempting to gain access to Fulton County’s 2020 ballots through several lawsuits. He arrived at the scene of the raid in a celebratory mood.
“I think it’s maybe our last hope at getting to see the ballots,” Favorito told The Center Square. “”Because both Fulton County elections and the Fulton County judicial system have prevented us from having a transparent election. Hopefully, this will be able to answer the questions that have been lingering for five years over that election.”
The county has been under scrutiny by Republicans and the Trump administration amid allegations of election fraud stemming from the 2020 presidential election.
At a December 2025 meeting of the Georgia State Election Board, it was revealed that poll workers did not properly sign tabulation tapes of more than 300,000 votes that were counted in the 2020 presidential election. Republicans called for a federal investigation.
It’s unclear if the Wednesday raid is tied to the unsigned tabulation tapes.
This is a developing story.
All involved should be imprisoned, all EOs of Brandon should be nullified and DJT should be afforded to run for a third term, since he was robbed of two consecutive terms having had to undo the damage of the last four years. Let’s hope the GOP grow a spine and demand it.
We can’t let this go like we do everything else. The public has to demand full disclosure and culpability of everyone involved in voter fraud. If they can prove it in Fulton Country, they can expand investigations into other suspicious precincts. It is clear to me that the democrats have absolutely no compunction about cheating in order to attain and maintain power. It has and is being demonstrated in Minnesota right now.
EVEN IF something is found, SIX YEARS LATER, likely NO one will get prosecuted.
That is a fact. And the saddest thing about this is the Republicans including the governor of Georgia didn’t even give a damn about the election fraud…. I guess they took the pay off instead!!
MORE and more i am wondering, WHY VOTE for republicans, when they seem ot be Just as bad as dems are.
DEMS AT LEAST FIGHT for their ideology and agenda.
Republicans more and more, just seem to SHOUT about it, but when push comes to shove, DO NOTHING..