Fulton County claims everything was on the up and up during Georgia's 2020 Election.
Their actions tell a different story.
And Fulton County filed a lawsuit against the FBI that confirmed Trump's worst fears.
County fights to block federal investigation
Fulton County filed a federal lawsuit demanding the FBI return 700 boxes of 2020 election documents seized during a raid at the county's election hub near Atlanta.
Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. challenged the legality of the search warrant in the Northern District of Georgia.
The FBI carted away ballots, voter rolls, tabulator tapes, and electronic ballot images under a warrant seeking evidence of potential election fraud.
"I have asked the county attorney to take any and all steps available to fight this criminal search warrant," Arrington stated.
County officials want the documents to remain in Georgia under seal.
They're spending taxpayer money on lawyers to keep federal investigators away from the ballots.
The admission that changes everything
Just weeks before the FBI raid, Fulton County made a stunning confession.
During a December 9, 2025 State Election Board meeting, county attorney Ann Brumbaugh admitted officials violated state regulations during the 2020 election.
"We do not dispute that the tapes were not signed," Brumbaugh testified.
The admission involved 315,000 early votes.
Election integrity activist David Cross spent $15,800 on open records requests exposing the violations.
He obtained 134 tabulator tapes representing those 315,000 ballots.
Every single signature block was blank.
Georgia law requires poll managers and two witnesses to sign each tabulator tape certifying the vote count is accurate.
Those signatures serve as the legal certification that reported totals are authentic.
Without them, those 315,000 votes were never properly certified.
Cross told the board these weren't clerical errors.
"They are catastrophic breaks in chain of custody and certification," Cross stated.
Fulton County also admitted it misplaced additional tabulator tapes and documents from 2020.
State Election Board member Janelle King called it "at best sloppy and lazy, at worst egregious."
The Secretary of State's investigation substantiated the findings.
36 of 37 early voting precincts in Fulton County failed to follow required procedures.
Georgia’s State Election Board voted 3-0 to refer the case to the Attorney General's Office.
Fulton County faces up to $740,000 in fines.
Trump vindicated by county's own testimony
Those 315,000 improperly certified votes exceeded Trump's margin of defeat in Georgia by a factor of 28.
Trump lost the state by just 11,779 votes according to official results.
President Trump spent years arguing that election irregularities in Fulton County contributed to his 2020 loss.
Democrats and media outlets dismissed his concerns as conspiracy theories.
Now Fulton County's own attorneys admitted under oath that they violated state election law affecting more than a quarter million ballots.
County officials are fighting in court to block federal investigators from examining the ballots.
County Chairman Robb Pitts claimed the raid threatens elections "across Georgia and across the nation."
A county admits it broke state election law affecting 315,000 ballots, then fights to prevent anyone from examining them.
The Justice Department sued in December 2025 seeking these same records.
Fulton County refused to comply.
That forced FBI Director Kash Patel to execute the search warrant.
"The FBI follows the facts and the law," Patel said.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he was stunned by the county's resistance.
"We want to weed out corruption," Trump explained.
"It seems hard to believe that a judge could say, we don't want you to do that."
Democrats questioned why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attended the search.
Gabbard explained Trump asked her to coordinate intelligence related to election security.
County officials spent years claiming their 2020 procedures were flawless.
If Fulton County had nothing to hide, they would have gladly turned over evidence to the FBI.
The documents would clear their name and put questions about 2020 to rest once and for all.
Instead, they're spending taxpayer money on lawyers to keep federal investigators away from the ballots.
Trump warned last month that people would soon be prosecuted for what they did in 2020.
The FBI's seizure of Fulton County's election documents suggests that prosecution may be closer than Democrats want to admit.
Sources:
- Matthew Vadum, "Fulton County Georgia Sues For Return Of 2020 Election Documents Seized By FBI," The Epoch Times, February 5, 2026.
- Maya Homan and Ross Williams, "FBI raids Fulton County elections warehouse seeking 2020 ballots," Georgia Recorder, January 28, 2026.
- Jasper Ward, "Georgia's Fulton County seeks the return of 2020 election documents seized by the FBI," Reuters, February 4, 2026.
- Atlanta News First, "Fulton County admits verifying 315,000 votes in 2020 without poll worker signatures," December 24, 2025.
- Emma Camp, "Fulton County Says 315K Votes Lacking Sign-Off Counted In 2020," The Federalist, December 22, 2025.
