Fulton County Commissioner Dana Barrett recounted the FBI’s removal of more than 600 boxes of 2020 election records in an Oct. 18 interview with 60 Minutes.
Her county went to court to recover the material. In Utah, a separate dispute developed over federal demands for confidential voter information, even as state officials conducted their own citizenship review.
That review flagged 52 confirmed or likely noncitizens among more than 2 million registrations. Together, the cases illustrate the disagreements over federal access to election records under President Donald Trump ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.
Fulton County’s fight to recover the records
“In my wildest dreams, I never imagined that we would be raided by the FBI,” Barrett told correspondent Lesley Stahl…