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FBI raids election office searching for 2020 ballots

Trump claims people are going to be prosecuted over 'rigged 2020 election'
  • Federal investigators executed a search warrant at an election office in Fulton County, Georgia, Wednesday, reportedly in connection with the 2020 presidential election.
  • FBI agents were seen removing boxes of ballots from the county’s main election office in Union City, just south of Atlanta.
  • “The FBI agents are here to get the 2020 ballots,” Fulton County Court Clerk Che’ Alexander told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “They’re all here —trucks, everything.”
  • Trump lost Georgia in the 2020 election against Joe Biden and has falsely claimed his narrow defeat was due to a “rigged” vote.
  • Despite his repeated claims that Biden did not actually win, federal judges and his own former attorney general have said there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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