2026-05-06 7:21 PM ET / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：蒂尔尼·斯尼德
布兰登·贝尔/路透社
一名富尔顿县选举登记与委员会雇员于2020年11月5日在佐治亚州亚特兰大处理选票。
联邦法官周三表示，他不会下令司法部将其从佐治亚州富尔顿县查获的2020年总统选举选票归还该县，驳回了该县官员的请求。
JP·布利法官表示，该县未达到允许他介入此案的较高法律门槛，尽管他承认“此案背后的事件在诸多方面都是前所未有的”。
该命令下达于今年1月联邦调查局搜查富尔顿县选举办公室并查获选举材料数月之后。此次搜查依据的搜查令申请援引了长期在极右翼圈子流传的选举欺诈指控。该县随即提起诉讼，要求取回相关文件。
联邦调查局一直在调查司法部所称的富尔顿县2020年选举执行过程中存在的违规行为，唐纳德·特朗普总统曾 falsely 声称此次选举存在舞弊。（注：原文此处为false，应为false，翻译时按“虚假声称”处理）
富尔顿县官员在法庭文件中提出，这项刑事调查似乎是“为了获取本届政府无法通过民事诉讼程序快速获得的记录而找的借口”。
迈克·斯图尔特/美联社
2026年1月28日，在佐治亚州尤宁城，一名联邦调查局人员站在富尔顿县选举中心内，当时联邦调查局正在收缴富尔顿县2020年选举的选票。
但司法部辩称，这一说法“出于多种原因都毫无意义”，并称该县未达到要求归还查获材料的较高法律标准。
专家此前告诉CNN，联邦调查局在启动刑事调查仅几周后就查获了选举材料，这类案件的调查节奏异乎寻常地快。
与此同时，富尔顿县选举登记与委员会正试图阻止司法部获取数千名2020年选举工作人员的个人信息。
CNN的阿丽娜·法亚兹、派珀·赫德斯普思·布莱克本和卡安妮塔·艾耶尔为本报道撰稿。
Judge won’t order DOJ to return seized 2020 ballots to Fulton County
2026-05-06 7:21 PM ET / CNN
By Tierney Sneed
An employee of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections processes ballots in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 5, 2020.
Brandon Bell/Reuters
A federal judge said Wednesday he would not order the Justice Department to return ballots from the 2020 presidential election it seized from Fulton County, Georgia, rejecting a request by county officials.
Judge JP Boulee said the county had not met the high legal bar that would allow him to intervene, even as he acknowledged that “events leading up to this case are, in a variety of ways, unprecedented.”
The order comes months after the FBI searched a Fulton County elections office in January and seized election materials. That search was based on a warrant application that leaned on allegations of election fraud that have long circulated in far-right circles. The county quickly filed a lawsuit to retrieve the documents.
The FBI has been probing what the DOJ has described as irregularities in how Fulton County carried out the 2020 election, which President Donald Trump has falsely claimed was rigged.
Fulton County officials have proposed in court filings the criminal investigation appears to be a “pretext to acquire records that this Administration was unable to quickly secure via the civil litigation process.”
An FBI employee stands inside the Fulton County Election Hub as the FBI takes Fulton County 2020 Election ballots, on January 28, 2026, in Union City, Georgia.
Mike Stewart/AP
But the Justice Department has argued that theory is “nonsensical for multiple reasons” and that the county had not met the high bar required for ordering the seized materials be returned.
The FBI moved seized the election materials just a few weeks after opening a criminal probe, an unusually fast pace for a case of its kind, experts previously told CNN.
Meanwhile, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections is trying to block the Justice Department from gaining access to the personal information of thousands of 2020 election workers.
CNN’s Aleena Fayaz, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Kaanita Iyer contributed to this report.
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