By Jana Winter
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is executing a search warrant at a Fulton County election office in Georgia related to the 2020 election, a law enforcement official familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
FBI agents were spotted entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, said Fox News, which first reported the search of a new facility that state officials opened in 2023.
The probe is related to the 2020 election, which Republican
President Donald Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden, the official said.
Representatives for Fulton County's election office referred queries to the county's external affairs office, which did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
The Democratic-leaning county, home to Atlanta, backed Biden by a wide margin in the 2020 election, helping him win the state and the presidency. Trump unsuccessfully sought to overturn the result, pressuring the state's top election official to "find" him votes that would allow him to claim victory. Earlier this month he asked a state court for $6.2 million in legal fees he said he spent fighting criminal charges of election interference filed by the county's top prosecutor, Fani Willis.
(Reporting by Jana Winter, additional reporting by Costas Pitas, Bhargav Acharya, Susan Heavey and Andy Sullivan; editing by Scott Malone)
