FBI executes search warrant at election office in Fulton county, Georgia

[neohippie]

Source: The Gaurdian

The FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton county, Georgia, election office on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Atlanta field office said.

The purpose and scope of the warrant were not immediately clear. “Our investigation into this matter is ongoing so there are no details that I can provide at the moment,” said FBI Atlanta spokesperson Jenna Sellitto.

Fulton county officials are scrambling to understand the nature and target of the search at the county’s election hub and operation center, according to Regina Waller, a spokesperson for Fulton county. The office’s location in south Fulton is roughly half an hour south of Atlanta.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/fbi-search-warrant-fulton-county-georgia

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Sounds like Trump has ordered the FBI to look into his false claims about ballots in Fulton county its more retribution

[Walleye]

1. Our president is a pathetic butt hurt boy

[Trueblue1968]

6. DonOLD Rump is Not my president. Never was. Never will be.

[Chasstev365]

2. Trump's Gestapo in action!

[0rganism]

3. The search warrant had a gun and was interfering with their official business, obviously they had to execute it

There was no other way.

The English language is a freak show.

[Pinback]

4. Project 11,780.

Complete bullshit, of course. I hope there’s a secure backup of the data, because you know these criminals will alter or trash votes if they can get away with it.

This also sets the stage for them to install some kind of draconian “oversight” in Fulton Co. for the 2026 midterms.

[bluestarone]

5. Can states stop this bullshit

[littlemissmartypants]

8. They can try. But it's not that simple plus it takes money and time.

Then there's no sure bet. State Election boards are not standardized and based in local politics.

[bluestarone]

9. So basically this can be done in every state?

Election data in every state is that easy to access? CRAZY for sure. Did they just come up with this idea?

[littlemissmartypants]

11. The guardrails have disappeared with Trump. It's anyone's guess

What chaos he'll dream up next. He's looking for voter rolls in several states. In NC our Board of Elections just handed them over. It's really scary times.

[reACTIONary]

13. They need to get a search warrant, which requires...

.... showing probable cause to a judge. So it isn't all that easy, depending on the jurisdiction and the circumstances.

[bluestarone]

14. True i'm sure, BUT

TSF has friendly judges all over. All their plans are full steam ahead.

[reACTIONary]

17. I'm not sure about search warrants....

.... With subpoenas they can be challenged after being served, but with a search warrant they just show up and start searching. I think that's a feature, not a bug, because it doesn't allow the suspect to destroy or hide evidence. HOWEVER, if it goes to court, you can move to have the evidence thrown out if the warrant was defective.

One thing to remember is that Fulton Co is a special case. Normally, the retention period for election results is 22 months there. Normally, the seized material would have been disposed of long ago, but in this case they were under a court order to preserve it. Other states and counties would not have results laying around to be seized.

It is also the case that secretaries of state are closely cooperating with one another, and if this became a widespread general practice they would all start fighting back.

[blueknight73]

7. It isn't going to work,

RELEASE THE FILES

[Martin68]

10. Bad news.

[johnnyfins]

12. Well we know one thing.

Whatever comes of this, will be horseshit.

[orangecrush]

16. This.

[mdbl]

15. Didn't some trumper dude do an independent audit already?

Why are they there now? So they can go in and just make shit up to make the orange potato feel better?

[reACTIONary]

18. According to NPR, they have already done...

... three recounts in Fulton Co. So this isn't going anywhere.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. MaddowBlog-As the FBI searches Fulton County, Trump's 2020 election fixation has escalated beyond whining

When it comes to his 2020 defeat, what the president is doing is now more alarming than what he’s saying.

Trump’s whining about his 2020 defeat is easy to ignore. His actions are not:
- FBI's ridiculous search in Fulton County
- hiring Kurt Olsen to focus exclusively on conspiracy theory
- directing DOJ to find imaginary evidence of fraud
- demanding baseless prosecutions
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-29T16:55:07.204Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/as-the-fbi-searches-fulton-co-trumps-2020-election-fixation-has-escalated-beyond-whining

In October, for example, Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who has touted election conspiracy theories, joined the administration as a special government employee with one focus: investigating the 2020 election. A month later, The Washington Post reported that the president was “dialing up pressure on the Justice Department to freshly scrutinize ballots from the 2020 election,” adding that “in recent private meetings, public comments and social media posts, Trump has renewed demands that members of his administration find fraud in the five-year-old defeat that he never accepted.”

That’s the context for FBI agents’ execution of a search warrant Wednesday at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta. MS NOW reported:

‘The warrant sought a number of records related to 2020 elections,’ Fulton County spokeswoman Jessica Corbitt said Wednesday afternoon.

According to a copy of the warrant obtained and verified by MS NOW, the federal government is seeking evidence of voter fraud, as well as violations of a misdemeanor federal statute requiring elections officials to retain records related to presidential elections for 22 months.

According to Fulton County Commissioner Dana Barrett and another Fulton County source, who requested anonymity out of fear of retribution, the FBI took “pallets of ballots.” A New York Times report noted that the move “harnesses the investigative power of the Justice Department and the F.B.I. behind baseless claims by Mr. Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election was stolen from him.”.....

If the White House wants federal law enforcement officials to waste their time rereviewing what we already know, that’s a shame for the officials who could be doing real work on behalf of the public, but in the grand scheme of things, it might seem trivial.

But it’s not quite that simple. For one thing, the president who controls the Justice Department is intent on prosecuting unnamed foes as part of his hysterical crusade, and the FBI’s latest efforts in Fulton County are another step down the same radical path. And as Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California explained well, this is also part of a larger effort by federal officials to interfere in local elections ahead of this year’s midterms.