(Atlanta, January 24, 2026) — The FBI conducted a search Wednesday at an election center in Georgia, a location central to unsubstantiated claims of fraud stemming from the 2020 presidential election.
Federal agents searched the Fulton County elections office in Atlanta as part of an ongoing investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
- The FBI carried out a court-authorized search at the Fulton County elections office.
- Agents were seen recovering boxes of ballots from a warehouse.
- The search is linked to the ongoing scrutiny of claims of election fraud made after the 2020 election.
The operation took place at the Fulton County elections office in Atlanta, according to reports from Fox News, CNN, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC). “The FBI is carrying out police action authorized by the courts,” a spokesperson for the federal police confirmed to AFP.
A Fulton County administrative official told the AJC that a large number of federal agents were recovering boxes of ballots from a warehouse where they were stored.
Background and Context
The search comes years after Donald Trump and his allies made repeated, and ultimately unsubstantiated, allegations of widespread voter fraud in Georgia following the 2020 election. Trump was indicted in 2023 by both federal and Georgia state authorities for attempting to illegally overturn the election results, charges that were later dropped after his 2024 reelection.
These allegations centered on Fulton County, where his then-lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, falsely accused two election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, of rigging the vote count. Giuliani claimed the women were exchanging a USB drive “as if they were doses of heroin or cocaine,” based on a misleading video. He was later ordered to pay them $148 million in December 2023 for defamation.
The proceedings against Trump were also based on a January 2021 phone call, publicly released, in which he asked a Georgia election official to “find” approximately 12,000 ballots to reverse the state’s results.
“The 2020 election was a rigged election, everyone knows that,” Donald Trump reaffirmed last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, reiterating his long-held and unsubstantiated claims.
Last week, Trump also stated, “People will soon be charged for what they did,” signaling a potential desire for retribution against those involved in the legal proceedings against him.
Time.news based this report in part on reporting by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN, and Fox News and added independent analysis and context.
