{"id":73480,"date":"2026-01-28T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/2026\/01\/28\/fbi-searches-fulton-county-elections-office-in-georgia-what-we-know\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:05:21","slug":"fbi-searches-fulton-county-elections-office-in-georgia-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/2026\/01\/28\/fbi-searches-fulton-county-elections-office-in-georgia-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI searches Fulton County elections office in Georgia \u2014 what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix\">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-127727760,imgsize-641376,width-400,resizemode-4\/1280720-5.jpg\" alt=\"FBI searches Fulton County elections office in Georgia \u2014 what we know\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>FBI agents carried out a search at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta on Wednesday, officials said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>An FBI spokesperson confirmed that agents were executing a \u201ccourt-authorised law enforcement action\u201d at the county\u2019s main elections office in Union City, south of Atlanta. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The search comes at a time when the FBI, under Director Kash Patel, has stepped up actions aligned with concerns raised by President Donald Trump, including investigations involving people he has described as political adversaries.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Trump has repeatedly claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, despite court rulings across the country and findings by his own former attorney general that found no evidence of widespread wrongdoing that changed the result. <!-- -->Democrat Joe Biden won that election.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Georgia, a key battleground state Trump lost, has remained central to his claims. After the election, Trump publicly urged the state\u2019s then secretary of state to \u201cfind\u201d enough votes to reverse his defeat.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Last week, Trump said that \u201cpeople will soon be prosecuted\u201d over the 2020 election.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>In 2023, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis secured an indictment against Trump and 18 others over efforts to overturn the election results. The case was dismissed in November after courts barred Willis and her office due to an appearance of impropriety.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/fbi-searches-fulton-county-elections-office-in-georgia-what-we-know\/articleshow\/127727382.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI agents carried out a search at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta on Wednesday, officials said.An FBI spokesperson confirmed that agents were executing a \u201ccourt-authorised law enforcement action\u201d&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769627121_1280720-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}