2020 Election Investigations

A judge will hear Fulton County’s bid to reclaim ballots and election records seized by the FBI on Jan. 28 from a warehouse near Atlanta that served as the county’s 2020 elections hub. The Justice Department says the search was executed under warrant as part of an investigation into whether ballot images and tabulation were mishandled (including duplicate scans, unfolded unmailed ballots treated as mail‑ins, and tabulator‑tape irregularities), while Fulton calls the seizure a Fourth Amendment affront and an overreach; an election‑security expert has filed a declaration contesting the affidavit’s accuracy, and DOJ notes it has also sought records and data from other jurisdictions.