Stephen Fowler

Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

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It is what he has been talking about for the past five plus years.

In fact, when I look at my calendar, I don't see the year 2026.

I see 2020 comma six, because that's how long it has been dealing with the claims of election fraud in the presidential election.

And Georgia has been one of the places where Trump has focused on his loss and the effort to overturn the loss and the effort to hold people accountable

for not overturning it for him.

And this is the culmination of that, or the latest culmination, I should say.

Earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation rolled up to the Fulton County Elections Warehouse just outside of Atlanta.

They had a search warrant, and they took about 650-ish boxes of ballots, of tabulation tapes, of other documents related to the 2020 election that were sitting in a warehouse.

It is a search warrant that has an FBI affidavit attached to it.

That affidavit is under seal.

The FBI, when we ask them for comment and confirmation, declined to answer any questions.

But if you look at the search warrant, there are two different federal statutes mentioned.

One deals with the destruction of property.

public records related to elections after a two-ish year period, and the other deals with counting and tabulating fraudulent ballots that you allegedly know are fraudulent.

So those are some clues.

It's important to zoom back five plus years to the 2020 election

There were a number of claims about how Fulton County ran its election that were based in conspiracies, based in false claims.