The FBI raid of a Fulton County, Ga., election office late last month was based on widely unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday.
The affidavit, signed by FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans, cited “allegations of electoral impropriety relating to the voting process and ballot counting” in Fulton County as justification for its probe.
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the reasoning behind the search warrant in a Wednesday post on the social platform X.
“The warrant execution in Fulton County involves an FBI criminal investigation examining whether any alleged electoral improprieties involved intentional acts that violated federal criminal law,” Patel wrote.
The affidavit indicated the agency’s investigation began with a referral from Kurt Olsen, a former Trump campaign lawyer involved in litigating the president’s false claims that the election was stolen. He now serves as President Trump’s appointed “Director of Election Security and Integrity,” according to the document.
Investigators were focused on “deficiencies or defects” in the election and tabulation of votes, including alleged admissions from local election officials that some ballots were scanned multiple times during the recount, the document noted.
It was also claimed local officials admitted the county did not have scanned images of the hundreds of thousands of ballots counted during the original count and recount.
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