Fulton County, Georgia, plans to file a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the FBI’s seizure of its 2020 election records. During a raid on the county election office near Atlanta last week, the FBI took 700 boxes of election materials for an investigation into President Donald Trump’s repeated but unproven claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Now, Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. said the county is suing the federal government over the seizure.
“We have to do something to protect our citizens, to protect the voter information and the voter rolls,” Arrington, a Democrat, told Atlanta’s NBC affiliate, WXIA-TV, on Monday.
The upcoming lawsuit
The lawsuit had not been filed as of Monday morning, but Arrington said it’s coming later in the day.
“I have asked the county attorney to take any and all steps available to fight this criminal search warrant,” Arrington said, according to WANF-TV in Atlanta. Monday. “The search warrant is not proper, but there are ways that we can limit it. We want to ask for forensic accounting, we want the documents to stay in the state of Georgia under seal and we want to do whatever we can to protect voter information.”
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Joe Biden won 49.47% of the vote in Georgia in 2020’s presidential election, compared to Donald Trump’s 49.24%.
In a press release, Arrington said the FBI had the authority to copy records but not to take custody of them. Arrington noted that how they were taken affects the chain of custody.
“Now we cannot verify that we’ve received everything back because there was no chain-of-custody inventory taken at the time the records were seized,” Arrington said.
“They stole our original ballots,” he said. “They stole the original absentee ballots and the original provisional ballots.”
Trump’s longstanding claims of a Georgia victory
Trump continues to claim, without evidence, that he actually won Georgia in the 2020 presidential race.
As Straight Arrow News previously reported, before Congress certified Joe Biden as the winner, Trump placed a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he asked that the official “find” enough votes to change the outcome.
Joe Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes, or less than one-fourth of 1% of all votes cast. In Fulton County, which includes most of the city of Atlanta, Biden received almost 73% of the more than 500,000 votes cast.
Numerous investigations found no evidence of irregularities or fraud in the county or state’s polling.
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