The FBI’s seizure of 2020 voting records in Fulton County, Ga., relied on an insufficient affidavit that rehashed previously investigated and disproven election fraud claims, a witness for the county told a federal judge in Atlanta.
Federal authorities obtained a search warrant based on an FBI agent’s affidavit and seized more than 600 boxes of documents in January for a criminal probe into the county’s handling of the election.
But the affidavit pointed to irregularities that are common in elections and don’t suggest any intentional wrongdoing, elections consultant Ryan Macias testified before Judge J.P. Boulee, a Trump appointee to the ...