For years, questions about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia were met with ridicule, dismissal, and in the case of President Donald Trump himself, a criminal indictment. Now, the FBI has raided the election offices of Georgia's most populous county, seized 700 boxes of election records, and disclosed an affidavit outlining a series of troubling irregularities that investigators believe may constitute violations of federal law. The story the establishment media insisted was a "Big Lie" is suddenly the subject of a very real federal criminal investigation.
On January 28, 2026, FBI agents descended on the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Union City, Georgia, carting away hundreds of boxes of election materials including physical ballots from the 2020 presidential election. Fulton County — which covers the greater Atlanta area — was ground zero for some of the most contentious disputes surrounding Georgia's election results, a state where Joe Biden was declared the winner over Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes out of millions cast.
The affidavit supporting the court-approved raid, signed by FBI Special Agent Hugh Evans, lays out a straightforward and sobering legal standard: "If these deficiencies were the result of intentional action, it would be a violation of federal law regardless of whether the failure to retain records or the deprivation of a fair tabulation of a vote was outcome determinative for any particular election or race."
That is a crucial sentence. The FBI is not claiming, at this stage, that the election was stolen. What it is saying — and what a federal judge agreed was sufficient to approve a raid — is that the irregularities identified in Fulton County are serious enough to warrant a criminal investigation into whether they were intentional. That is a far cry from the blanket assurances Americans were given for years that there was "no evidence" of wrongdoing.
Tabulator Anomalies and Missing Records
Among the most significant findings outlined in the affidavit are serious anomalies with the tabulator machines used to count votes on election night. Voting machine security expert Clay Parikh conducted an analysis that raised red flags at multiple levels.
Tabulator tapes — printed records that document how many ballots and votes each machine counted — for more than 300,000 votes were either unsigned or missing altogether, Evans wrote. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who oversaw the 2020 election and is now running for governor, dismissed this as mere administrative oversight. The FBI sees it differently.
More alarming still, Parikh identified a single tabulator that was used to close out 15 separate machines from 12 different locations — a highly irregular finding suggesting that memory cards may have been removed from original machines and inserted into another tabulator to generate closing tapes. The timing stamps on several of those tapes were so close together that Parikh concluded the times themselves had been manipulated.
Perhaps most striking, Parikh found that the protective counters on at least five tabulator tapes from the same unit were identical — and that the number of ballots reportedly scanned on some machines actually exceeded the protective counter number. In plain terms, this means those machines may never have scanned any ballots at all, with the vote totals instead generated by inserting an unencrypted memory card directly into the unit. As Evans wrote, "This would have allowed an opportunity for the tabulation to be tampered with."
To make matters worse, the majority of ballot images from the original in-person vote count were not preserved by the county. While not legally required at the time, their absence represents, in the FBI's own words, "another impediment to ruling out non-criminal explanations for the activities during the election."
The Hand Recount That Raised More Questions
Following the razor-thin result, Secretary Raffensperger ordered a full hand recount of all ballots — a process that was supposed to provide the definitive, human-verified confirmation of the results. Instead, it generated additional concerns that investigators are now scrutinizing closely.
Multiple witnesses who participated in the recount reported suspicious occurrences. One batch of 110 ballots contained 107 that were filled out identically — the same candidates selected, bubbles filled the same way, on paper that felt different from standard ballots, and without the creases that would be expected from ballots mailed in return envelopes. A 25-year veteran poll manager also flagged a batch of approximately 60 ballots from a senior living center that similarly lacked fold marks.
A sitting Fulton County Commissioner, who was a poll worker at the time, told investigators she witnessed people printing ballots from a machine used for testing — and stated plainly that she "could have printed any ballot she wanted." She witnessed people "printing random ballots" for no apparent reason, and managed to physically destroy some of them herself before the situation was addressed.
Then there are the batch count discrepancies. Chemical engineer Joseph Rossi filed a formal complaint with Governor Brian Kemp alleging inconsistencies across dozens of ballot batches during the hand recount. Kemp's office independently verified the allegations as factual and forwarded them for investigation. What that investigation found is difficult to explain away as simple human error. One batch was recorded as 200 votes for Biden and zero for any other candidate. The actual ballot images showed 85 votes for Biden, 12 for Trump, and three for others. Another batch recorded as 150 for Biden and zero for others actually contained 97 Biden votes, 8 Trump votes, and 1 third-party vote. Multiple batches showed similar patterns — Biden vote totals rounded up dramatically, Trump votes zeroed out entirely.
Raffensperger attributed all of these discrepancies to human error during data entry. That explanation strains credulity when the pattern of errors so consistently moves in one direction.
A Tale of Two Investigations
It is impossible to discuss this FBI probe without acknowledging the profound irony at its center. Donald Trump was indicted in Fulton County on charges that his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results were executed with corrupt intent. That case was dismissed after Trump returned to the presidency in 2025. Now, using a directly analogous legal rationale — that if known irregularities were intentional, they constitute criminal acts — the federal government is investigating the very election processes Trump spent years questioning.
The American people deserve answers. They deserve to know whether the irregularities uncovered in Fulton County were the result of sloppiness, incompetence, or something far more deliberate. The 700 boxes of materials now in FBI custody give investigators an unprecedented opportunity to either confirm wrongdoing or put the speculation to rest once and for all.
Either outcome serves the public interest. What does not serve the public interest is what happened for the past five years — the systematic dismissal of credible, documented concerns raised by ordinary citizens, data analysts, election security experts, and even a sitting county commissioner. Americans were told to trust the process. The FBI apparently needed a little more convincing.
Fulton County officials have filed a lawsuit seeking the return of the seized materials. The investigation is ongoing.
FBI Raids Fulton County Election Office: What the Criminal Probe of the 2020 Election Has Uncovered
- by: Ben Martin
- 2026-02-24
- Source:
patriotuncensored.com
- 02/24/2026
