FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — After a short legal battle, it was ordered that the full federal search warrant be unsealed that served as the basis for the FBI raid for 2020 election ballots in Fulton County.
A federal judge gave a deadline of Tuesday for the warrant to be unsealed.
All the latest developments on Channel 2 Action News starting at 4:00 p.m.
The documents were seized by the U.S. Department of Justice on Jan. 28. The FBI sent agents to Fulton County election offices, and they seized ballots and election-related documents from the 2020 presidential race.
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The seizure prompted quick legal action by county officials in federal court.
According to the previously available warrant, agents were told to seize records related to alleged violations of U.S. Code Title 52, the federal rules for record preservation from elections.
The portion of the warrant already made public ordered agents to seize all records related to alleged violations beginning on Oct. 12, 2020 in Fulton County.
The warrant called for all physical ballots from the election, including absentee ballots and envelopes, advanced voting ballots, provisional ballots, in-person ballots from election day, emergency ballots, damaged or destroyed ballots, duplicated ballots and any other ballots used to cast a vote.
Agents were also directed to get the tabulator tapes for all Fulton County voting machines from the 2020 election, all ballot images from Nov. 3 and copies of voters rolls from that year’s elections.
Fulton County Chairman Robb Pitts and the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections filed a motion to have the full record unsealed.
Pitts said when FBI agents arrived at the facility, their warrant did not include the correct location for 2020 election records.
Agents had to get a new warrant signed by a judge and return. They seized 700 boxes of ballots and voter data from the presidential election.
Hours of body camera video obtained by Channel 2 Action News through an open records request showed agents going through the facility.
Fulton County Elections Supervisor Nadine Williams was present during the operation and expressed surprise at the arrival of federal agents. She later stated that her staff cooperated with the agents once the situation was clarified.
“The staff was concerned,” Williams said. “We had nothing to hide. Nothing had been destroyed. We just wanted to make sure that the people that were representing the FBI were legitimate and they were doing a legitimate process.”
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