Raid on Fulton county election office is part of the Trump administration’s wider US push to fuel false claims of fraud
The FBI raid on the Fulton county election office Wednesday was an aggressive new front in Donald Trump’s effort to use his 2020 election loss to continue to sow doubt about American elections ahead of the 2026 midterms.
As Trump sought to overturn the 2020 election, false claims of malfeasance during ballot-counting in Atlanta became a key part of the big lie about a stolen election. Misleading surveillance video showing ballots being retrieved from suitcases became the basis for a myth that fraudulent ballots were included in the tally. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer and a close ally at the time, was ordered to pay $148.1m to the election workers as part of a libel suit for spreading lies about them. He later settled.
Two recounts confirmed Joe Biden won Georgia and state investigators debunked Trump’s false claims. Nonetheless, Trump and allies in the state have worked to keep that myth alive. Some activists who have spent years spreading false claims about elections in the state went to the site of the raid on Wednesday and posed with crime scene tape.
“This has been litigated 800 times,” said Helen Butler, a longtime voting activist in the state who leads the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, adding it was clear there was no fraud. “I think it’s undermining confidence in the election process.”
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