Federal agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office in Georgia on Jan. 28, seizing 2020 ballots and related election materials in an investigation tied to alleged election law violations. The warrant listed a Missouri-based prosecutor, Thomas Albus, interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, as the Justice Department attorney on the document, an unusual choice for a Georgia-based investigation.
The involvement of a Missouri prosecutor in a Georgia warrant has fueled questions and controversy about the federal operation. Fulton County officials and national reporters noted that Theodore Hertzberg, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, was not named on the warrant, and DOJ has not publicly explained the arrangement.
Local authorities confirmed the FBI, operating under a “court-authorized activity,” found and loaded hundreds of boxes of ballots, voting rolls and machine tapes into trucks during the multi-hour search. It is unclear what evidence was presented to justify the warrant, as the supporting affidavit remains sealed…