Aisha Bakshi

sure thing happy to be here asia start us off please by telling us about the raid where was it and what happened this raid was at a very large election center in fulton county it's the fulton county election hub near atlanta it's a hub that actually i've been to a couple times i was covering the 2024 national elections down in georgia

It's a very important hub when it comes to vote tabulation and it stores a lot of voting records.

And this is tied to much of Atlanta.

Fulton County is the most populous county in Georgia.

So it's a very important county for understanding what happens in the state as a whole.

Joe Biden's win there in 2020 helped propel him to victory across the nation.

And the FBI conducted a raid here where it was authorized by a search warrant to seize physical ballots, to seize ballot images, and to see some records tied to vote counting, vote tabulation in Fulton County, all in relation to the 2020 election.

The FBI has been pretty tight lipped when it comes to this investigation.

When I reached out to them, they told me just that they were engaged in some sort of court authorized law enforcement activity.

But the search warrant that they used to conduct this raid has been released.

And that tells us something about what they are looking at.

It cited two different criminal statutes.

One has to do with maintaining voting records, that those records have to be maintained after a federal election for 22 months.

So it looks like part of what they're looking at is whether Fulton County did that after the 2020 election.

And then the second one has to do with potential threats or coercion or fraud in relation to the voting process itself.

So it looks like the FBI is looking into some sort of potential crime related to that.

What specifically that involves, we don't know.

The government would have submitted an affidavit in which they would have described specifically what the details really are of what they're looking at here.

But that affidavit remains under seal.

So we haven't really gotten a picture of the evidence that a magistrate judge looked at when she signed this warrant.