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FBI executes search warrant at Fulton County election facility
Washington Examiner ^ | 28 Jan, 2026 | Kaelan Deese

Posted on 01/29/2026 7:54:50 AM PST by MtnClimber

FBI agents executed a court-authorized search warrant on Wednesday at a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility, investigating a state that was at the center of voter fraud complaints and election litigation following the 2020 presidential election.

Agents were seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center at 5600 Campbellton Fairburn Road in southwest Atlanta. The facility, which opened in 2023, was designed to consolidate and streamline the county’s election operations.

“Yes, I can confirm FBI Atlanta is executing a court-authorized law enforcement action at 5600 Campleton Fairburn Rd.,” an FBI Atlanta spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “Our investigation into this matter is ongoing, so there are no details that I can provide at the moment.”

Fulton County officials and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) slammed the FBI’s decision to conduct a warrant on the election facility, accusing President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice of continuing the president’s tirade against alleged election fraud that he has maintained for years, resulting in his 2020 election defeat.

“I suspect today’s raid is a continuation of this sore loser’s crusade, despite repeated audits and independent reviews confirming that Donald Trump was indeed defeated,” Ossoff, who, alongside Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), defeated their GOP opponents in the state’s runoff election in early 2021, said.

Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington arrived at the facility later in the afternoon, describing the FBI raid as a “full frontal attack on democracy.”

“This is a code red in America in Fulton County,” he added.

A warrant issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Catherine M. Salinas authorized agents to search the Office of the Clerk of Court at the Fulton County election facility and to seize records connected to alleged violations of Title 52 of the U.S. Code, including provisions governing the preservation of federal election materials. A copy of the warrant was obtained by ProPublica on Wednesday afternoon.

According to the five-page warrant, federal investigators are seeking all physical ballots from Fulton County’s 2020 general election, including absentee, early voting, provisional, emergency, duplicated, and damaged ballots, as well as ballot envelopes.

It also authorizes the seizure of tabulator tapes from every voting machine used in the county, including opening, closing, and zero tapes, as well as all ballot images generated during the initial count, recount, or any subsequent scanning related to the 2020 election.

In addition, agents are permitted to obtain voter rolls associated with the 2020 election, including records showing to whom absentee ballots were issued, from whom ballots were received, and who voted early or in person.

Federal investigators were also authorized to review both physical and electronic election records and to provide copies of seized digital data to DOJ attorneys and technical experts for further examination.

Fulton County has spawned national election controversies since 2020, when President Donald Trump and his allies raised concerns about ballot handling and election administration in Georgia’s most populous county. Those concerns later became a cornerstone of one of the most aggressive post-election prosecutions brought against Trump.

After Trump left office, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, pursued a sweeping racketeering case accusing Trump and several allies, accusing them of conspiring to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.

The indictment was predicated in part on Trump’s January 2021 phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Willis alleged Trump pressured Raffensperger to “find” votes to reverse his loss to former President Joe Biden.

That case has since collapsed following months of litigation over whether Willis had a conflict of interest by hiring her romantic partner, Nathan Wade, as special prosecutor. A judge ultimately disqualified Willis from continuing the prosecution, effectively derailing the high-profile case until a new prosecutor took over the case and decided to dismiss it completely.

The FBI search also comes as the Trump administration’s DOJ continues a broader effort to obtain voting records from Georgia as part of a nationwide election integrity review. Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed a DOJ lawsuit seeking access to Georgia’s unredacted voter registration database after ruling the case was filed in the wrong court.

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES FULTON COUNTY TO OBTAIN RECORDS RELATED TO 2020 ELECTION

The DOJ has argued it needs the records to assess Georgia’s compliance with federal election law, while state officials have said Georgia law prohibits the release of sensitive voter information. The DOJ has brought similar lawsuits in more than 20 states and previously sued Fulton County over access to ballots and other election records from the 2020 election.

Federal officials have not indicated whether Wednesday’s search is connected to those efforts, to prior election litigation, or to any separate criminal inquiry. Fulton County officials have repeatedly defended the integrity of their election processes and rejected allegations of systemic fraud.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; fbi; fraud; fulton; fultoncounty; georgia; warrant

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1 posted on 01/29/2026 7:54:50 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

This should be interesting.


2 posted on 01/29/2026 7:55:05 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“””In addition, agents are permitted to obtain voter rolls associated with the 2020 election, including records showing to whom absentee ballots were issued, from whom ballots were received, and who voted early or in person. “”””

That is hugh and series.


3 posted on 01/29/2026 7:58:16 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: MtnClimber

Dumossoff and Warlock raise their ugly little heads.


4 posted on 01/29/2026 7:58:32 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: MtnClimber

Any more about Tulsi?


5 posted on 01/29/2026 7:59:15 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber
“full frontal attack on democracy.” “This is a code red in America in Fulton County,”

Then why did the Judge sign off on the warrant if there is nothing there???
6 posted on 01/29/2026 8:01:39 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: shelterguy

Don’t think the Rats are so thorough that they didn’t leave any forensic evidence, hence the weeping and gnashing of teeth.


7 posted on 01/29/2026 8:05:35 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: ealgeone

If Ossoff is clutching his pearls this tightly, must be some dangerous evidence among the piles of smelly mail-in ballots.

Everyone remembers the videos of the ballots pulled from under the desks after hours. Oh yeah, sorry, we were all supposed to ignore that as a RW conspiracy, not trust our lying eyes.


8 posted on 01/29/2026 8:05:55 AM PST by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: MtnClimber

What could they worry about if there were no fake ballots?


9 posted on 01/29/2026 8:09:25 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: HombreSecreto

It would be interesting if their computer system has something like:

10,000 files datestamped from 2018
10,000 files datestamped from 2019
absolutely zero files datestamped from 2020
10,000 files datestamped from 2021
10,000 files datestamped from 2022
10,000 files datestamped from 2023
10,000 files datestamped from 2024
and 20,000 files datestamped from 2025, half of which claim to be 2020 files


10 posted on 01/29/2026 8:11:04 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I believe that every state is a Red state, if the elections are honest.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is NOT a mere search warrant. It is a criminal warrant backed by 6 affidavits.


11 posted on 01/29/2026 8:11:39 AM PST by Salvavida
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To: MtnClimber

Why do I have a stinking feeling that the “Data” will suddenly be MISSING????

Fulton County to FBI - OOPSIE, the data just disappeared last week.


12 posted on 01/29/2026 8:16:56 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MtnClimber

I hope to see Ruby Freeman and daughter Wandrea Moss get perp walked and have to return their lawsuit award to Rudy. Low-life skanks.


13 posted on 01/29/2026 8:17:55 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: OHPatriot
The smoking gun was disposed of long ago.

Via Attorney Lin Wood: Georgia Woman Witnesses Shredding Company Shredding Ballots, Calls Police, Films Shredding and Recycling Company Destroying Evidence at Elections Office in Cobb County
14 posted on 01/29/2026 8:22:10 AM PST by SpaceBar
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PLUS.......even more devastating and revealing:
<><>FBI agents are permitted to obtain 2020 election voter rolls,
<><>including records showing “to whom” absentee ballots were issued,
<><>”from whom” ballots were received,
<><>and “who” voted early or “in person.”


15 posted on 01/29/2026 8:40:10 AM PST by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.)
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To: MtnClimber

Better late than never.


16 posted on 01/29/2026 8:44:42 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ealgeone

That’s because both likely won by fraud.


17 posted on 01/29/2026 8:46:26 AM PST by lula (God is in control.)
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To: OHPatriot
The objective seems pretty comprehensive. Multiple datasets should corroborate each other, and inconsistencies would be indicative of cheating. Also note the phrasing in the warrant: "Title 52 of the U.S. Code, including provisions governing the preservation of federal election materials".

IOW, if certain records are missing or destroyed, somebody will be held criminally liable.

18 posted on 01/29/2026 8:49:53 AM PST by omni-scientist
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To: SpaceBar

If they destroyed those ballots the tabulation would be way off compared to what was taken as evidence today. A sure sign of fraud. This will be interesting. Once again Trump was right. Guliani and Powell need to be restored.


19 posted on 01/29/2026 8:50:10 AM PST by lula (God is in control.)
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To: MtnClimber
My-fake-Senators
20 posted on 01/29/2026 8:55:52 AM PST by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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