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联邦调查局周三在佐治亚州富尔顿县的一个选举办公室执行了搜查令，试图获取与2020年总统选举相关的选票，一位消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，此次调查与此有关。
富尔顿县证实，联邦调查局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。
此次搜查引起了几位特朗普政府高级官员的关注。周三晚些时候，联邦调查局副局长安德鲁·贝利和国家情报局局长图尔西·加巴德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。
一位高级政府官员向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示：”加巴德局长在选举安全以及保护选举完整性免受干扰方面发挥着关键作用，这些干扰包括针对投票系统、数据库和选举基础设施的行动。”
此次联邦调查局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，其中许多指控都集中在富尔顿县。
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，但该局在一份声明中证实，他们进行了”法院授权的执法行动”。
不过，根据富尔顿县专员小马文·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，选举官员如果通过提交欺诈性选票或选民登记申请来恐吓选民或剥夺其公平选举的权利，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，为了获得搜查令，当局必须证明在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，试图取走”700箱选票”，并被看到将选票箱装载到卡车上。麦克劳林发布了一段联邦调查局证据响应小组在办公室工作的视频。
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临时美国检察官。目前尚不清楚为什么阿尔布斯的名字出现在搜查令上，而不是佐治亚州的司法部官员。阿尔布斯办公室的发言人没有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，联邦调查局带着搜查令来到富尔顿县选举办公室，但根据州法律，选票和其他2020年选举文件实际上由富尔顿县高等法院书记员封存，这迫使联邦官员寻求新的搜查令以获取书记员办公室的文件。
巴雷特说，联邦调查局和书记员切·亚历山大都在拍摄清点选票箱的过程，以记录保管链。
联邦政府尚未公开解释此次搜查的原因。联邦调查局在一份声明中表示，由于”对此事的调查仍在进行中”，无法提供细节。白宫将置评请求转交给了联邦调查局。
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继续进行的十字军东征的一部分，尽管多次审计和独立审查都证实唐纳德·特朗普确实败选了。”
佐治亚州民主党众议员尼基马·威廉姆斯要求联邦调查局终止调查，她写道：”基于特朗普总统赢得选举这一谎言的突袭和重新调查缺乏事实依据，只会恐吓选民并破坏我们即将举行的选举的完整性。”
富尔顿县委员会主席罗布·皮茨在周三晚些时候的新闻发布会上说：”令我不解的是，我仍然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，在每种情况下，我们都得到了良好的结果。”
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”。
弗吉尼亚州参议员、参议院情报委员会最高民主党成员马克·华纳特别质疑加巴德的参与。他写道，国家情报局局长出现在联邦调查局的搜查现场，”只有两种可能的解释”。
“要么加巴德局长认为存在合法的外国情报关联——在这种情况下，她显然违反了法律规定的义务，没有就相关国家安全问题向情报委员会’充分且及时地通报’——要么她再次证明自己完全不适合担任她所担任的职务，将本应领导的无党派情报界带入一场旨在使破坏民主的阴谋论合法化的国内政治噱头中。”华纳写道。
特朗普政府为何对富尔顿县感兴趣？
富尔顿县是亚特兰大和其部分郊区的所在地，是佐治亚州人口最多的县，也是关键的民主党坚固堡垒——并且在特朗普先生关于2020年总统选举被窃取的虚假指控中发挥了核心作用。
2020年大选后的几周内，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。特朗普曾对国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯珀格说：”我只想找到11,780张选票。”
特朗普任命的司法部长比尔·巴尔在2020年表示，司法部没有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利也通过机器重新计票和全州每个县手工重新计票的审计得到了确认。
但特朗普先生继续坚称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，但应该是。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，要求法官强制她交出该县2020年选举的选票和其他投票记录。司法部表示，她未能交出这些记录，这是司法部调查该县是否遵守联邦选举法的一部分。
亚历山大要求法院驳回诉讼，理由是司法部没有提供合法理由来索要这些记录。她还表示，这些记录是封存的，需要由富尔顿县的州法官解封。法官尚未对此事做出裁决。
另外，富尔顿县在2023年引起了全国关注，因为该县地方检察官法尼·威利斯以敲诈勒索罪起诉了特朗普先生和其他十几人，指控他们非法试图推翻特朗普先生2020年的选举失利。
该案件因上诉法院以威利斯与她聘请的一名特别检察官存在恋爱关系为由将其从案件中移除而停滞多年，这构成了”重大不当行为的表象”。另一位接替威利斯的检察官决定以”为了正义利益”为由驳回起诉。
雅各布·罗森和阿登·法尔希对本报告有贡献。
FBI searches Fulton County elections office seeking 2020 ballots. Here’s what we know.
Updated on: January 29, 2026 / 12:02 AM 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.” The White House referred a request for comment to the FBI.
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.”
Democratic Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia demanded that the FBI cut off its investigation, writing that “raids and renewed investigations based on the lie that President Trump won the election lack a factual basis and only serve to intimidate voters and undermine the integrity of our upcoming elections.”
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.”
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, specifically questioned Gabbard’s involvement. He wrote that “there are only two possible explanations” for why the director of national intelligence would be present at the FBI’s search.
“Either Director Gabbard believes there was a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus — in which case she is in clear violation of her obligation under the law to keep the intelligence committees ‘fully and currently informed’ of relevant national security concerns — or she is once again demonstrating her utter lack of fitness for office that she holds by injecting the nonpartisan intelligence community she is supposed to be leading into a domestic political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy,” Warner wrote.
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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