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联邦调查局周三在佐治亚州富尔顿县的一处选举办公室执行了搜查令，以获取与2020年总统选举相关的选票，据消息来源向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，此次调查与此相关。
富尔顿县证实，联邦调查局已在其选举运营中心执行了搜查令，并”索要了大量与2020年选举相关的记录”。一位在场的州参议员告诉记者，联邦调查局索要了数百箱选票。
此次搜查吸引了几位特朗普政府的高级官员。联邦调查局副局长安德鲁·贝利和国家情报总监泰尔西·加巴德周三晚都被发现在选举办公室外。原本计划举行的联邦官员新闻发布会后来被取消。
一位高级政府官员告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻：”加巴德总监在选举安全以及保护选举完整性免受干预（包括针对投票系统、数据库和选举基础设施的操作）方面发挥着关键作用。”
此次联邦调查局的行动是在特朗普总统多年来毫无证据地声称2020年选举被操纵之后展开的，其中许多说法都集中在富尔顿县。
联邦调查局在富尔顿县调查什么？
目前尚不完全清楚联邦调查局在寻找什么信息，尽管该局在一份声明中证实已开展了”法庭授权的执法行动”。
但根据富尔顿县专员小马尔文·阿林顿在社交媒体上分享的搜查令，该局似乎正在调查两项联邦刑事法律的违反情况。
其中一项法律规定，选举官员如提交欺诈性选票或选民登记申请，以恐吓选民或剥夺其公平选举权利，将构成犯罪。另一项法律要求选举官员保留联邦选举记录22个月。
搜查令由美国治安法官凯瑟琳·萨利纳斯签署。通常情况下，为获得搜查令，当局必须证明有合理理由认为特定地点存在犯罪证据。目前尚不清楚联邦调查局提交了什么证据。
民主党州参议员乔希·麦克劳林告诉记者，联邦调查局出现在选举办公室，要求获取”700箱选票”，并被看到将选票箱装上卡车。麦克劳林在网上发布了一段联邦调查局证据响应小组在办公室的视频。
搜查令上列出的司法部律师是托马斯·阿尔布斯，他是密苏里州东区的代理美国检察官。目前尚不清楚为何阿尔布斯的名字出现在搜查令上，而非佐治亚州的司法部官员。阿尔布斯办公室的发言人未回应哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的置评请求。
搜查发生在富尔顿县选举中心和运营中心，但阿林顿分享的搜查令是发给富尔顿县法院书记员办公室的——这似乎是由于佐治亚州法律存在差异。
富尔顿县专员达娜·巴雷特告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，当天早些时候，联邦调查局持搜查令前往富尔顿县选举办公室，但根据州法律，2020年选举的选票和其他文件实际上由富尔顿县高等法院书记员办公室封存保管，这迫使联邦官员必须为书记员办公室申请新的搜查令。
巴雷特表示，联邦调查局和书记员切·亚历山大都在对清点箱子的过程进行录像，以记录保管链。
联邦政府尚未公开评论此次搜查的原因。联邦调查局在一份声明中表示，由于”此事调查仍在进行中”，无法提供详细信息。
当地民主党政客强烈批评联邦调查局，并暗示这可能与特朗普先生的欺诈指控有关。佐治亚州民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫表示：”我怀疑今天的突袭是这个失败者持续进行的竞选活动的延续，尽管多次审计和独立审查都证实唐纳德·特朗普确实败选。”
富尔顿县委员会主席罗布·皮茨在周三晚的新闻发布会上表示：”我实在无法理解为什么对六年前举行的2020年选举如此着迷。那次选举已经过审查和审计，每次审查和审计都得出了无问题的结果。”
皮茨还表示，在搜查之后，”我再也无法证明这些选票是安全的。”
特朗普政府为何对富尔顿县感兴趣？
作为亚特兰大和其部分郊区的所在地，富尔顿县是佐治亚州人口最多的县，也是民主党的关键据点——它在特朗普先生关于2020年总统选举被窃取的虚假说法中扮演了核心角色。
在2020年大选后的几周里，特朗普的盟友毫无证据地声称，富尔顿县存在大规模欺诈，导致前总统乔·拜登以微弱的11,779票优势赢得佐治亚州，并敦促州官员推翻选举结果。特朗普曾一度告诉国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯珀格：”我只想找到11,780张选票。”
2020年，特朗普任命的司法部长比尔·巴尔表示，司法部未发现足以改变选举结果的大规模欺诈证据。拜登在佐治亚州的胜选也得到了机器重新计票和全州每个县手工重新计票的审计确认。
但特朗普仍坚持认为2020年选举是”被操纵的”，并且在重返白宫后，他誓言要调查这一问题。
“这是一场被操纵的选举。现在每个人都知道了，”总统上周在瑞士达沃斯的一次演讲中表示，”人们很快就会因他们的所作所为受到起诉。这可能是突发新闻，但本就应该如此。这是一场被操纵的选举。”
上个月，司法部对富尔顿县书记员亚历山大提起民事诉讼，要求法官强制其交出该县2020年选举的选票和其他投票记录。司法部称，亚历山大未能按要求交出记录，这是司法部调查该县是否遵守联邦选举法的一部分。
亚历山大请求法院驳回诉讼，称司法部没有提供合法理由来获取这些记录。她还表示，这些记录已被封存，需要由富尔顿县的州法官解封。目前法官尚未对此事做出裁决。
此外，富尔顿县在2023年因该县地方检察官法尼·威利斯对特朗普先生及其他十几人以敲诈勒索罪名提起刑事指控而受到全国关注，指控他们非法试图推翻特朗普在2020年选举中的失败。
该案件因多年的诉讼而停滞，部分原因是上诉法院因威利斯与她聘请的一名特别检察官存在恋爱关系而将其从案件中移除，称这”存在重大不当行为的表象”。接替威利斯的另一名检察官决定以”为了正义利益”为由驳回起诉。
雅各布·罗森和阿登·法希为本报道提供了帮助。
FBI searches Fulton County elections office seeking 2020 ballots. Here’s what we know.
January 28, 2026 / 9:26 PM EST / CBS News
The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday at an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, seeking to take ballots in an investigation that a source told CBS News is linked to the 2020 presidential election.
Fulton County confirmed that the FBI executed a search warrant at its election operations center and “sought a number of records related to 2020 elections.” A state senator who was present told reporters the FBI sought hundreds of boxes of ballots.
The search drew several top Trump administration officials. Deputy FBI Director Andrew Bailey and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were both spotted outside the elections office late Wednesday. A news conference with federal officials was initially scheduled then later canceled.
“Director Gabbard has a pivotal role in election security and protecting the integrity of our elections against interference, including operations targeting voting systems, databases, and election infrastructure,” a senior administration official told CBS News.
The FBI operation follows years of claims by President Trump — without evidence — that the 2020 election was rigged, many of which have zeroed in on Fulton County.
What is the FBI investigating in Fulton County?
It’s not entirely clear what information the FBI is seeking, though the agency confirmed in a statement that it carried out a “court authorized law enforcement action.”
But the bureau appears to be investigating violations of two federal criminal laws, according to a search warrant shared on social media by Fulton County commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr.
One of those laws makes it a crime for elections officials to intimidate voters and to deprive them of a fair election by submitting fraudulent ballots or voter registration applications. The other law requires elections officials to retain federal election records for 22 months.
The warrant was signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Catherine Salinas. Typically, in order to get a search warrant, authorities must show probable cause that there is evidence of a crime at a particular location. It’s unclear what evidence the FBI has presented.
Democratic state Sen. Josh McLaurin told reporters the FBI showed up at the elections office seeking to take “700 boxes of ballots,” and was seen loading boxes of ballots into trucks. McLaurin posted a video of an FBI evidence response team at the office.
The Justice Department lawyer listed on the search warrant was Thomas Albus, interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. It’s unclear why Albus’s name appears on the warrant rather than a Justice Department official based in Georgia. A spokesperson for Albus’ office did not respond to a request for comment from CBS News.
The search took place at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center, but the warrant shared by Arrington was addressed to the Office of the Clerk of Court — seemingly due to a discrepancy in Georgia law.
Earlier in the day, the FBI showed up with a warrant for the Fulton County elections office, but ballots and other 2020 election paperwork are technically held under seal by the clerk of the Fulton County Superior Court under state law, forcing federal officials to seek a new warrant for the clerk’s office, Fulton County Commissioner Dana Barrett told CBS News.
Barrett said both the FBI and Clerk of Courts Che’ Alexander were filming the process of inventorying the boxes for chain-of-custody purposes.
The federal government has not publicly commented on why it carried out the search. The FBI said in a statement it can’t provide details because its “investigation into this matter is ongoing.”
Local Democratic politicians have strongly criticized the FBI and suggested it could be related to Mr. Trump’s fraud claims. Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia said: “I suspect today’s raid is a continuation of this sore loser’s crusade, despite repeated audits and independent reviews confirming that Donald Trump was indeed defeated.”
Robb Pitts, chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, said in a news conference late Wednesday: “For the life of me, I still cannot understand the fascination about the 2020 election, which occurred six years ago. That election has been reviewed, it’s been audited, and in every case, in every instance, we get a clean bill of health.”
Pitts also said that, following the search, “I can no longer certify that these ballots are secure.”
Why is the Trump administration interested in Fulton County?
Home to Atlanta and some of its suburbs, Fulton County is the most populous county in Georgia and a key Democratic stronghold — and it played a central role in Mr. Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
In the weeks following the 2020 race, Mr. Trump’s allies claimed, without evidence, that widespread fraud in Fulton County led to former President Joe Biden’s narrow 11,779-vote win in Georgia, and urged state officials to reverse the results. At one point, Mr. Trump told Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger: “I just want to find 11,780 votes.”
Trump-appointed Attorney General Bill Barr said in 2020 that the Justice Department hadn’t found evidence of fraud on a wide enough scale to tip the results of the election. Biden’s win in Georgia was also confirmed in both a machine recount and an audit that involved hand recounts by every county in the state.
But Mr. Trump has continued to insist that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and since returning to the White House, he has vowed to investigate the issue.
“It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that,” the president said in a speech last week in Davos, Switzerland. “People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It’s probably breaking news, but it should be. It was a rigged election.”
Last month, the Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against Alexander, the Fulton County clerk of courts, asking a judge to force her to hand over the county’s 2020 election ballots and other voting records. The department said she had failed to hand over the records as part of a Justice Department investigation into whether the county complied with federal elections law.
Alexander asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing the Justice Department hadn’t offered a legitimate reason to seek the records. She also said the records were under seal, and would need to be unsealed by a state judge in Fulton County. A judge has not yet ruled on the matter.
Separately, Fulton County drew national attention because the county’s District Attorney Fani Willis criminally charged Mr. Trump and more than a dozen other people with racketeering in 2023, accusing them of illegally trying to overturn Mr. Trump’s 2020 election loss.
The case was stalled for years, in part because an appellate court removed Willis from the case over a romantic relationship she had with a special prosecutor she hired to assist in the investigation, posing a “significant appearance of impropriety.” Another prosecutor who stepped in to replace Willis decided to dismiss the prosecution “to serve the interests of justice.”
Jacob Rosen and Arden Farhi contributed to this report.
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