The FBI searched an election office in Georgia's Fulton County outside Atlanta on Wednesday, pursuing President Donald Trump's false claims that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voting fraud.
The FBI said in a brief emailed statement that its agents executed a warrant at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Union City, a large, warehouse-like facility opened by Georgia officials in 2023, and called it a "court-authorized law enforcement activity."
The FBI agents were looking to seize computers and ballots they believed were held at the facility as part of an investigation into possible election interference, a law enforcement official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
This comes a week after US President Donald Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that people will be prosecuted for what they did in the 2020 election, which he again falsely claimed was "rigged."
Trump's interest in Fulton County, Georgia
Fulton County has been a fixation of Trump's following his 2020 election loss in Georgia, according to an NBC report.
Days before the January 6 insurrection in Washington, DC, Trump made a call pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to overturn then-President-elect Joe Biden's election win.
All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state," Trump said in the recording, insisting that there was "no way" he lost in Georgia.
Raffensperger’s office declined to comment on Wednesday, per NBC.
This is a developing story.