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Fulton County in Georgia filed a motion Wednesday demanding that the federal government return all of the 2020 election files seized by the FBI during an extraordinary raid on the county’s main election operations center last week.
This week, President Donald Trump and the GOP kicked their intertwined anti-voting crusades — promoting lies about the 2020 election, and restricting voting in 2026 and beyond — into high gear. And we tracked them every step of the way.
There is widespread doubt that the seized records will produce any evidence of prosecutable criminal activity, and not just because the 2020 election results have been recounted, audited, and litigated to death already.
But 2020 isn’t the investigation’s real target — 2026 is.
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s involvement in the FBI’s raid on an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, suggests the Justice Department and FBI intend to allege that foreign interference led to Trump’s loss in Georgia in 2020.
The 2020 election records are still sealed, two County Commissioners allege.
Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office.
The DOJ opened an investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia late last year.
The U.S. Justice Department refiled its lawsuit seeking access to Georgia’s unredacted voter records, after a federal judge tossed the department’s initial case for being filed in the wrong district.
It’s not the first time the DOJ filed a voter roll lawsuit in the wrong district.
Our team has been digging in on what’s probably the most important ongoing voting story of 2026, which will shape the voting access landscape for the midterms: the unprecedented push by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain state voter rolls.