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When the FBI seized 2020 election materials from an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, this January, their extraordinary raid was predicated in part on a report alleging election fraud in the county. But before the raid, officials within the bureau had already debunked that report.
Conservatives say a report used to justify an FBI raid on Fulton County’s elections records “suffers from extensive analytical and factual flaws.”
Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris shares her concerns about the fate of the Voting Rights Act during her talk at the National Action Network convention.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is claiming key details about its seizure of 2020 election ballots in Fulton County are too sensitive to disclose in court — but one of its top officials may have already laid them out publicly.
Fulton County officials fighting for the return of 2020 election materials seized by the FBI asked a federal judge to order the Justice Department to disclose details about its repeated attempts to obtain the county’s election records.
New documents show that a federal judge found flaws in the FBI’s original search warrant application against Fulton County’s election hub. Rather than rejecting the application, the judge helped the bureau refine its request.
The “defects” cited by the FBI to obtain the affidavit for the raid were in fact nothing more than glaring misunderstandings of the process, minor inconsistencies, and normal human errors with no significant impact.
Fulton County officials urged a federal judge to order the Department of Justice to return 2020 election records seized during the FBI’s unprecedented raid on the county’s election hub earlier this year, arguing the move violated voters’ rights and relied on misinformation.
The FBI agent behind the bureau’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election records from Fulton County, Georgia, will not have to testify in an upcoming hearing in the county’s lawsuit seeking the return of the materials, a federal judge ruled.
Trump’s response seemed to allude to his own role as the target of a U.S. Justice Department investigation into whether he colluded with Russia during his 2016 presidential campaign.