Here's what we know so far about the FBI's raid of Fulton County election hub

[Dulcinea]

(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) What happened? Federal agents on Wednesday descended on Fulton County’s election operations center to execute what an FBI spokesman called a “court-ordered activity.” The 600,000-square-foot elections hub in south Fulton is used for voting and county election board meetings.

It also houses documents from 2020, including the physical ballots cast by voters, which have been kept under a court-ordered seal because of pending litigation.

A team of FBI agents scoured the building over the course of several hours. Agents could be seen loading hundreds of boxes into large trucks behind the facility.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/01/heres-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-fbis-raid-of-fulton-county-election-hub/

[SSJVegeta]

1. So apparently it was a federal magistrate judge that signed the warrant

Over some non descriptive allegations of destroying records or something. Whole thing seems super fishy

[FloridaBlues]

2. They wanted the voters rolls and got them.

I hope all voters check on their registration before elections.

[Scrivener7]

3. Would there be any benefit to changing party affiliation to Independent? Presumably

they will be going after Democrats and leaving everyone else alone.

Would that do anything to keep them at bay?

[Dulcinea]

4. Probably not.

In GA, voters don't have to register with a party. We have open primaries.

[Scrivener7]

5. Ah. You're probably right.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. 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.