Georgia's Fulton County demands return of ballots seized by FBI: new filing

Georgia's Fulton County has filed a motion seeking the return of 2020 election ballots seized by the FBI, state election officials said Wednesday.

The motion has requested that the FBI return the records and ballots it took last week during a raid at a the county's election center warehouse, according to MS NOW.

The motion was under a seal and the details were not immediately released, MS NOW's Josh Einiger reported.

A county commission hearing was underway Wednesday and more details about the motion were expected to be revealed during an upcoming press conference, he added.

"Writ large, the big challenge for Fulton County is just to figure out how to get those ballots back," Einiger said. "Again, 700 boxes of ballots and other related documents seized by the FBI last week as part of this apparent wide-ranging investigation, although no one in Fulton County really can say for sure who or what is the actual target of this investigation. The biggest concern, Ana, though for election officials in Fulton County and the Fulton County Commission is that they could somehow in all this lose control of their voting systems as the midterms are just around the corner and of course, the next general election in 2028."

President Donald Trump has continued to insist that election fraud cost him the 2020 election, despite no clear evidence that this happened.

Georgia officials had vowed to fight back last week after the FBI raid.