Fulton County officials argue FBI agent misled judge to seize ballots from 2020 election
Did an FBI agent deliberately mislead a federal judge to secure the warrant that initiated the bureau’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election records from an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last month?
That’s the explosive question that county officials are now attempting to answer in their lawsuit to force the Department of Justice (DOJ) to return the sensitive election records, which included original ballots. The county has suspicions it was intentional deception.
At the county’s request, a Trump-appointed federal judge has called for a court hearing this Friday to force FBI special agent Hugh Raymond Evans to testify about the extraordinary affidavit he presented to a court to justify the FBI’s raid.
The FBI has asserted that its seizure of the records was part of its investigation into whether “deficiencies or defects” occurred in Fulton County’s handling of the 2020 election and whether its tabulation of votes resulted in violations of election record retention rules and voter fraud laws. But Fulton County claims that Evans’ affidavit effectively violated the Constitution.
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