"The FBI's rationale behind raiding the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month was based on debunked claims from election deniers and came after a referral from a White House lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election, a search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday reveals. The warrant offers the first insight for the basis for the FBI's 28 January raid on the Fulton county election office."
"The FBI's investigation originated from a referral sent by Kurt Olsen, an attorney who sought to overturn the 2020 election and contacted justice department officials to urge them to file a motion at the US supreme court to nullify the election. Olsen began working at the White House last year to investigate election integrity problems. The FBI's witnesses in the investigation include a cadre of conservative activists who have been hounding state officials with claims of wrongdoing in Fulton county for years."
"Seizure of the election records would corroborate the analysis that evinces that election records were destroyed and or the tabulation of votes included materially false votes, either through duplicated scanning of specific ballots, interjection of pristine ballots, or other methods described above, Hugh Raymond Evans, an FBI special agent, wrote in the affidavit. Trump lost Georgia in 2020 by nearly 12,000 votes, a result that was twice confirmed."
A search warrant affidavit reveals the FBI raided the Fulton County election office after a referral tied to Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who sought to overturn the 2020 election and later worked at the White House on election integrity issues. FBI agents seized nearly 700 boxes of election materials during the 28 January operation. Witnesses for the investigation include conservative activists whose long-running claims about Fulton County have been investigated and debunked, and two Trump-aligned Georgia state election board members. The affidavit states that seized records could corroborate analyses alleging destroyed records or materially false vote tabulations through duplicated scans or injected pristine ballots. Georgia's 2020 result showed a near 12,000-vote margin that was confirmed twice.
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