Investigation of Fulton County’s election to determine if ‘improprieties’ were intentional, and therefore criminal

The FBI recently raided Fulton County, Georgia, and came away with hundreds of boxes of records from the disputed 2020 presidential election.

That race, awarded to Joe Biden, has been in the news for years now over the facts that the county’s voting machine records are unsigned, affecting more than 300,000 votes, ballots apparently were counted twice or even three times, there was apparent obfuscation of the actual counting procedures and much, much more.

After all, Biden won by only a few thousand votes and records confirm that 125,784 absentee voters actually cast 148,318 absentee ballots, a controversy never explained.

Now a report at Federalist reveals that the intent of the FBI’s work is to determine whether any of those misbehaviors were intentional, and therefore criminal.

“Search warrant affidavits unsealed on Tuesday lay out the FBI’s justifications for seizing hundreds of boxes of ballots and other materials related to Fulton County, Georgia’s ‘extremely sloppy” administration of the 2020 presidential election,” the report said.

The FBI charged that there is probable cause to believe election officials may have deliberately violated the law, and a federal magistrate agreed.

“This warrant application is part of an FBI criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws,” the unsealed affidavit states.

Among the problems that already have been identified by post-election audits include, “chain of custody issues, ballots left unattended, unsealed bags being used, and auditors not recording seal numbers on ballot bags,” the FBI pointed out.

And here’s the REAL kicker about the 2020 Fulton County absentee ballots:

148,319 absentee ballots were counted in the 2020 General Election from Fulton County…

but only 125,784 voters are recorded as casting an absentee ballot.

There are 25,534 more ballots counted than…

— Cleta Mitchell (@CletaMitchell) February 4, 2026

BREAKING: A Panicked Fulton County Georgia & Democrat Party Have Filed An Emergency Motion Asking A Federal Judge To STOP THE @FBI & @TheJusticeDept FROM REVIEWING ANY BALLOTS OR ELECTION MATERIALS SEIZED FROM THE COUNTY UNDER A SEARCH WARRANT BACKED RAID! pic.twitter.com/SbhkpViMrh

— John Basham (@JohnBasham) February 9, 2026

The Federalist noted elections expert Cleta Mitchell said, “And here’s the REAL kicker about the 2020 Fulton County absentee ballots: 148,319 absentee ballots were counted in the 2020 General Election from Fulton County… but only 125,784 voters are recorded as casting an absentee ballot. There are 25,534 more ballots counted than there are voters recorded as having voted by absentee ballot in Fulton County in 2020. Remember: the margin between President Trump and Joe Biden was 11,779 votes…and that was the THIRD certified number and didn’t match either of the first two counts….the counties could not get their numbers to match from the first count to the second to the third…..@GaSecofState Brad Raffensperger has NEVER explained that… The full report can be accessed here: @KevinMoncla
https://x.com/KevinMoncla/status/2016989656307367970?s=20.”

The FBI concedes some charges have been documented over the years since the election, others have been disproven.

But this investigation, which the county is trying to derail at the start line by claiming in court that it should have all of the investigatory documents returned from the FBI, is to determine whether problems are “more than the clerical errors that Democrats and other Fulton County apologists claim them to be.”

“If these deficiencies were the result of intentional action, it would be a violation of federal law,” the court document states.

In fact, the Election Oversight Group already has released a 263-page report citing the county’s chain of custody issues, specifically the tens of thousands of absentee ballots “accepted and counted without first performing mandatory signature verification.”

Further, the Federalist documented how election officials failed to properly sign more than 100 “tabulator tapes,” amounting to about 315,000 votes cast during Georgia’s early-voting period.

State and local officials have shrugged off the problems as minor errors.

But even Philip Stark, of Cal-Berkeley’s statistics department, confirmed, “There is reason to distrust the election outcome” because of the fact some ballots were counted twice or three times.