Federal investigators were executing a search warrant at an election office in Fulton County, Georgia, in connection with the 2020 vote, officials said.
FBI agents were “executing a court-authorized law enforcement action” at the county’s main election office in Union City, just south of Atlanta, an FBI spokesperson said Wednesday.
An FBI source confirmed to The Independent that the bureau was undertaking “law enforcement activity” in the area, but declined to provide further details.
Fulton County Court Clerk Che’ Alexander told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that a large number of federal agents were taking boxes of ballots from the warehouse where they had been stored.
“The FBI agents are here to get the 2020 ballots,” Alexander said. “They’re all here —trucks, everything,” Alexander said.
Trump lost Georgia in the 2020 election and has falsely claimed his narrow defeat to President Joe Biden was due to a “rigged” vote.
Despite his repeated claims that Biden did not actually win the race, federal judges and his own attorney general have said there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Still, Trump and his allies have continued to spread conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud during the election, with Trump going as far as pleading with Georgia’s then-secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to “find” him enough votes to win.
Wednesday’s search comes a week after President Donald Trump, while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said that “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis accused Trump and more than a dozen co-defendents of leading a “criminal enterprise” with a so-called “fake elector” scheme to falsely claim his victory in the election.
Willis charged Trump and over a dozen co-defendants, including allies Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman.
However, the case was dismissed in November following a lengthy court battle over allegations involving Nathan Wade, a former romantic partner she hired as a special prosecutor in the case.
Peter Skandalakis, the director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, assigned the case to himself. He then recommended last month that it be dismissed, which a judge agreed to.
The president and his allies have kept up their claims that something went amiss during the election. In December, the U.S. Justice Department sued Fulton County, Georgia, as well as over a dozen states, looking to receive unredacted voter registration information related to the 2020 election.
The lawsuit said the department sent a letter to Che’ Alexander, the court clerk, but that she failed to produce the requested documents. Alexander has filed a motion to dismiss the suit.
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Source: independent.co.uk