Federal Judge Allows DOJ to Retain 2020 Election Ballots Seized from Fulton County
A federal judge has denied a request from Fulton County, Georgia, to return over 600 boxes of voting materials seized by the FBI as part of an investigation into the 2020 election. The FBI's January raid on a Fulton County election warehouse was described by U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee as 'unprecedented' and 'troubling' due to its reliance on debunked conspiracy theories. However, Boulee concluded that the county did not meet the legal requirements to intervene in the ongoing criminal investigation. The seized materials include original ballots from the 2020 election, which President Trump and his allies have claimed, without evidence, were part of widespread election fraud. The Justice Department is investigating potential irregularities in the county's vote counting, although previous audits and court rulings have found no evidence of significant wrongdoing. 
