Overview
- County attorneys filed an amended motion in federal court arguing the January search warrant was unprecedented and violated the Fourth Amendment.
- The motion asks the court to order the return of all original records and copies, and to require a verified inventory of what agents took and duplicated.
- A recently unsealed affidavit describes an ongoing FBI criminal investigation into whether alleged recordkeeping and tabulation deficiencies were intentional violations of federal law.
- FBI agents executed the Jan. 28 search at Fulton County’s election hub, seizing about 700 boxes containing ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic ballot images, and voter rolls.
- Elections expert Ryan Macias, in sworn testimony supporting the county, says the affidavit misstates routine practices and omits prior state reviews that found errors were benign and not indicative of fraud, with the probe tracing to a referral from attorney Kurt Olsen.