富尔顿县请求法院阻止司法部传唤2020年选举工作人员的个人信息


2026-05-05 上午10:13 美东时间 / 美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)

作者:卡尼塔·艾耶

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佐治亚州富尔顿县选举与选民登记委员会希望阻止司法部获取数千名2020年选举工作人员的个人信息。

在周一提交的动议中,该委员会要求将司法部4月20日发出的、要求获取选举工作人员姓名、地址和电话号码的传票“撤销”,并辩称这是司法部“针对并骚扰(唐纳德·特朗普)总统认定的政治敌人的最新举动”。

动议进一步指出,该传票威胁到选举工作人员的第一修正案权利“并将削弱他们参与选举的积极性”,还称其“不合理地干涉了佐治亚州管理选举的主权权力”。

富尔顿县委员会主席罗布·皮茨在发给CNN的一份声明中表示,该传票是“令人愤慨的联邦越权行为”。

CNN已联系司法部寻求置评。

该委员会提交动议之前,美国联邦调查局就司法部所称的亚特兰大所在的富尔顿县2020年选举中的违规行为展开了刑事调查。特朗普曾 falsely 声称佐治亚州的选举存在舞弊。

作为调查的一部分,联邦调查局于1月搜查了富尔顿县选举办公室并扣押了选举材料,该县已提起诉讼要求取回这些材料。此次搜查依据的搜查令申请依赖了此前已被揭穿的选举欺诈理论。

相关报道 2026年1月28日,在亚特兰大附近佐治亚州尤宁城,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调取2020年富尔顿县选举选票。迈克·斯图尔特/美联社 新时间线显示:联邦调查局扣押富尔顿县选举选票是在刑事调查启动后很快进行的 阅读时长:4分钟

在2020年大选中,乔·拜登凭借在佐治亚州的胜选击败特朗普,该州四年前曾是特朗普的票仓。在富尔顿县,拜登以超过70%的得票率获胜。

败选后,特朗普声称该州选举存在舞弊,并要求当地选举官员“找出”选票以推翻选举结果,这与该州最高选举官员、州务卿布拉德·拉芬斯珀格产生了冲突。目前拉芬斯珀格正在该州竞选共和党州长提名,对手是特朗普支持的候选人。

周一的动议对大陪审团是否确实在寻求传票所要求的选举工作人员信息提出了质疑。该县在文件中指出,司法部要求将记录提交给一名来自选区外的美国检察官办公室的检察官,而非大陪审团。

这名美国检察官是北卡罗来纳州中区的丹·毕晓普,近日由前司法部长帕姆·邦迪任命,负责全国范围内与选举相关的调查。

“从传票表面来看,没有迹象表明大陪审团甚至知晓此次调查,没有迹象表明记录会被返还给大陪审团,也没有迹象表明大陪审团会明知故犯地参与到政治化滥用传票程序的行为中,尤其是考虑到任何所谓的2020年选举‘犯罪’的诉讼时效都已届满,”文件中写道。

该委员会还援引了特朗普的多条社交媒体帖子,辩称该传票旨在“恐吓和骚扰选举工作人员”。

2025年11月,特朗普在Truth Social上就一名佐治亚州检察官撤销针对总统及其他人的、涉及试图推翻2020年选举结果的敲诈勒索案件一事发帖,写道:“2020年大选被操纵并被盗走了。”

富尔顿县委员会的律师在文件中写道,特朗普“已明确表示,他要报复那些拒绝纵容他毫无根据的主张的人”。

再次上台后,特朗普多次通过行政命令和司法部调查,似乎对大批批评者和被其视为政治敌人的人士进行了报复。

CNN的蒂尔尼·斯尼德和阿丽娜·法亚兹对本文亦有贡献。

Fulton County asks court to stop DOJ subpoena of 2020 election workers’ personal information

2026-05-05 10:13 AM ET / CNN

By Kaanita Iyer

Election workers count Fulton County ballots at State Farm Arena on November 4, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jessica McGowan/Getty Images

The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections in Georgia wants to block the Justice Department from gaining access to the personal information of thousands of 2020 election workers.

In a motion filed on Monday, the board requested that DOJ’s April 20 subpoena of election workers’ names, addresses and phone numbers be “quashed,” arguing that this is the department’s “latest effort to target and harass (President Donald Trump)’s perceived political enemies.”

It went on to say that the subpoena threatens the First Amendment rights of election workers “and will chill their participation in elections,” adding that it also “unreasonably interferes with Georgia’s sovereign authority to administer elections.”

Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chair Robb Pitts said in a statement provided to CNN that the subpoena is an act of “outrageous federal overreach.”

CNN has reached out to the Department of Justice for comment.

The board’s motion comes after the FBI opened a criminal investigation into what the Justice Department has described as irregularities in how Fulton County, which is home to Atlanta, carried out the 2020 election. Trump has falsely claimed the election was rigged in Georgia.

As part of the investigation, the agency searched the Fulton County elections office in January and seized election materials, which the county has filed a lawsuit to retrieve. That search was based on a warrant application that leaned on previously debunked theories of election fraud.

Related article 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., near Atlanta. Mike Stewart/AP FBI seizure of Fulton County election ballots happened quickly after criminal probe opened, new timeline shows 4 min read

In the 2020 election, Joe Biden defeated Trump in part by winning the state of Georgia, which Trump had won four years earlier. In Fulton County, Biden won with over 70% of the vote.

After his loss, Trump claimed the election was rigged in the state and demanded that local election officials “find” votes to overturn the results, setting up a clash with the state’s top election official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Raffensperger is currently running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the state against a Trump-backed candidate.

Monday’s motion raised doubts that a grand jury was even seeking the election worker information sought by the subpoena. The county noted in the filing that DOJ was requesting to have the records submitted to a prosecutor working in the office of an out-of-district US attorney rather than a grand jury.

That US attorney, Dan Bishop, in the middle district of North Carolina, was recently selected by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead election-related investigations nationwide.

“[T]here is no indication from the face of the Subpoena that the grand jury is even aware of this investigation, that the records will be returned to the grand jury, or that the grand jury would knowingly participate in a politicized abuse of its subpoena process given, among other things, that the statute of limitations has lapsed on any purported 2020 election ‘crime,’” the filing said.

The board also highlighted several of Trump’s social media posts to argue that the subpoena is intended to “intimidate and harass poll workers.”

In one November 2025 Truth Social post on a Georgia prosecutor dropping a racketeering case against the president and others over attempting to overturn the 2020 election, Trump wrote, “THE 2020 ELECTION WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN.”

Trump “has made it clear that he seeks retribution against those who refuse to indulge his baseless claims,” lawyers for Fulton County’s board wrote in the filing.

Since returning to office, Trump in many cases has appeared to retaliate against a wide swath of critics and perceived political enemies through executive orders and Justice Department investigations.

CNN’s Tierney Sneed and Aleena Fayaz contributed to this report.

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