Fulton County Demands FBI Return of 2020 Election Papers

ATLANTA – In a recent development, Fulton County has petitioned a federal court to retrieve documents related to the 2020 election that the FBI confiscated from a warehouse near Atlanta last week, according to county officials on Wednesday.

The request also includes a plea to disclose a law enforcement officer’s affidavit, which was used to justify the search warrant, as stated by the county chairman, Robb Pitts. Pitts mentioned that, due to the case being sealed, the specifics of the motion remain undisclosed.

On January 28, a search was conducted at the Fulton County main election facility in Union City, targeting documents linked to the 2020 election.

Since the election in which Republican Donald Trump was narrowly defeated by Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia, Trump and his supporters have concentrated their attention on this heavily Democratic and most populated county. Trump has consistently claimed, without substantiation, that voter fraud in Fulton County contributed to his loss in the state.

Pitts has staunchly defended the integrity of the county’s election processes, highlighting that Fulton County has successfully conducted 17 elections post-2020 without encountering any problems.

“The president himself and his allies, they refuse to accept the fact that they lost,” Pitts said. “And even if he had won Georgia, he would still have lost the presidency.”

Pitts cited comments by Trump earlier this week on a podcast where he called for Republicans to “take over” and “nationalize” elections.

“This case is not only about Fulton County. This is about elections across Georgia and across the nation,” he said.

A warrant cover sheet provided to the county includes a list of items that the agents were seeking related to the 2020 general election: all ballots, tabulator tapes from the scanners that tally the votes, electronic ballot images created when the ballots were counted and then recounted, and all voter rolls.