Breaking: FBI Launches 2020 Election Raid at Fulton County, Georgia, Facility

Federal authorities have taken a dramatic step in an ongoing probe tied to the 2020 presidential election, as FBI agents executed a search warrant Wednesday at Fulton County, Georgia’s primary elections facility.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that agents were “executing a court authorized law enforcement action” at 5600 Campbellton Fairburn Road, home to the Fulton County Elections Hub & Operations Center, according to CBS News.

“A source familiar with the investigation tells CBS News that the investigation is in connection with the 2020 election, in which Democrats narrowly won Georgia’s electoral college votes,” the outlet reported.

The facility houses sensitive election equipment as well as office space used by multiple Fulton County agencies, placing the search at the center of renewed scrutiny surrounding how the 2020 election was administered in Georgia.

The FBI action follows a December lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice seeking access to Fulton County election records from 2020, signaling that federal authorities are still pressing for answers more than four years after the contentious vote.

President Donald J. Trump, now serving his second term in office, has long maintained that fraud occurred in Georgia during the 2020 election. Trump carried the state in 2016, but it flipped to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 by fewer than 12,000 votes—one of the narrowest margins in the country.

Much of the controversy has centered on events at State Farm Arena on election night. Observers and members of the media were told ballot counting had stopped, only for it to resume for nearly two additional hours after they had left the facility.

Video footage from that night appeared to show ballots being run through counting machines multiple times, according to Cleta Mitchell, a member of President Trump’s legal team at the time.

There were also sworn affidavits from poll workers who said they observed unusually “pristine” mail-in ballots with no folds—raising questions about whether some ballots may have been filled out by machines rather than voters.

“Under Georgia law, to be a legal ballot, it has to be put into an envelope and returned,” Mitchell said.

Concerns about Fulton County’s handling of the election were echoed in an independent report commissioned by the Georgia State Election Board and released on January 12, 2021. That review cited widespread procedural failures.

“Although Fulton County allocated ample resources for absentee ballot processing leading into the general elections, the processes themselves were extremely sloppy and replete with chain of custody issues as the massive tide of ballots bounced around the Fulton Gov’t HQ building,” the report stated.

The report also raised alarms about ballot security during transport. “The fact that ballots were being delivered to State Farm Arena in unsecured mail carts is very concerning,” it said. “Protocol for securing ballots exists not only to protect the ballots themselves but also to ensure that no ballot box stuffing occurred.”

Investigators ultimately acknowledged lingering uncertainty about what transpired during the critical late-night window.

It concluded, “The truth about what happened on the night of November 3rd between 10:30 PM and 11:52 PM [at State Farm Arena] continues to be elusive … but if the poll watchers are correct, then there is a serious problem.”

While officials have not publicly detailed the scope of the FBI’s current investigation, the search of Fulton County’s election hub underscores that questions surrounding the 2020 election—particularly in Georgia—remain unresolved as federal authorities continue to seek records and answers.