The #FBI had searched a warehouse near #Atlanta where those records were stored, a move taken after Trump’s persistent demands for retribution over claims, without evidence, that fraud cost him victory in #Georgia. Trump’s election comment came in an interview Monday with a conservative podcaster & #Trump reaffirmed his position in Oval Office remarks the next day, citing BS fraud allegations that numerous audits, investigations & courts have debunked.
#ElectionLaw
Legal fight escalates over #Georgia voting records as #Trump says he wants to ‘take over’ #elections
Officials in Georgia’s Fulton County said Wednesday they have asked a federal court to order the #FBI to return ballots & other documents from the #2020election that it seized last week, escalating a voting battle as Trump says he wants to “take over” elections from Democratic-run areas with the November #midterms on the horizon.
#law #ElectionLaw #coup #authoritarianism https://apnews.com/article/fbi-georgia-elections-fulton-county-2020-ballots-532b6daf318c79c471cd7f145c9f2215
WTAF? I’m just going to assume that they don’t know that #PuertoRico unfairly doesn’t get to vote in presidential #elections — idiots
Reuters Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for #Trump's spy chief, #TulsiGabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's #VotingMachines, said Gabbard's office & 3 sources familiar with the previously unreported events.
#law #ElectionLaw #BigLie #propaganda #idiocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-spy-chiefs-office-investigated-voting-machines-puerto-rico-2026-02-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office after signing the bill to end the government shutdown, #Trump asserted that there were several cities with #election irregularities, for which there was NO evidence. “Look at some of the places — that horrible corruption on elections — & the federal government should not allow that,” he said. “The federal government should get involved.”
Tuesday, a day after Trump’s comments about wanting to “nationalize” #elections, Karoline Leavitt, WH press secy, claimed #Trump was referring to #federal election #legislation in #Congress. Yet after Leavitt’s attempt to soften Trump’s initial remarks, he doubled down on his assertion that the federal government should oversee #state #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #democracy #states
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us/politics/trump-election-states-midterms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
When the state loses control of a definition, it rewrites the law. A WA court ruling on voting exposes a long U.S. pattern: power lives in who defines the election. #VotingRights #StatePower #Democracy #ElectionLaw #HorizonAccord
#Trump’s remarkable call for a political party to seize the mechanisms of #voting follows a string of moves from his admin to try to exert more control over #US #elections, as he & his allies continue to make false claims about his 2020 defeat.
Last week, #FBI agents [& #TulsiGabbard] seized ballots & other voting records from the 2020 election from an #election center in #FultonCounty, #Georgia, where his allies have for years pursued false claims of election fraud. NYT reported Monday that #Trump had spoken directly to the FBI agents involved in the Fulton County raid, praising & thanking them.
Under the #Constitution, #US #elections are governed primarily by #state #law, leading to a decentralized process in which voting is administered by county & municipal officials in thousands of precincts across the country. #Trump, however, has long been fixated on the false claims that #US elections are rife with fraud & that #Democrats are perpetrating a vast conspiracy to have undocumented immigrants vote & lift the party’s turnout.🙄
During an extended rant about #immigration on a podcast released on Monday by #DanBongino, his former deputy #FBI director, #Trump called for #Republican officials to “take over” voting procedures in 15 #states, though he did not name them.
“The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over,’” he said. “We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”
#Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for #Republicans to “Take Over” #Elections
The comments, made on a conservative podcast, follow a string of moves from his admin to try to exert more control over #US elections.
Trump called in a new interview for the #GOP to “nationalize” voting in the US, an aggressive step that was likely to raise new worries about his admin’s efforts to involve itself in #election matters.
#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #democracy #Constitution #states
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-nationalize-elections.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
…The search & the administration’s flood of lawsuits against states have alarmed #election officials & experts, who worry that the moves are laying the groundwork for the administration to contest the results of this year’s congressional #midterms.
#law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #democracy #Trump #coup #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
“I don’t know why the director was there,” #ToddBlanche said of #TulsiGabbard. “She is not part of the grand jury investigation, but she is for sure a key part of our efforts at election integrity & making sure we have free & fair elections. She’s an expert in that space & it’s a big part of what she & her team look at every day.”
#law #Trump #WeaponizationOfGovernment #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #coup #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
#Trump PERSONALLY ORDERED #TulsiGabbard to go to #Atlanta for the search, & coordinated her actions with Andrew Bailey, 1 of 2 deputy #FBI directors, acc/to the #US official.
A White House spox, Davis Ingle, defended the admin’s efforts in #Georgia. “President Trump pledged to secure America’s elections, & he has tasked the most talented team of patriots to do just that,” Ingle said.
#law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #coup #MafiaState #authoritarianism #tyranny
By any measure, the #FBI’s search of an election center in #FultonCounty, #Georgia, last week was extraordinary. Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as #Trump harnessed the levers of government to not only buttress his false claims of widespread voter fraud, but also to try to build a #criminal case against those he believes wronged him.
What happened the next day was in some ways even more unusual….
#law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #coup #MafiaState
🚨🚨🚨
#Trump Had Unusual Call With #FBI Agents After #Georgia #Election Center Search
The phone conversation was arranged by the director of national intelligence, #TulsiGabbard, who met with the agents a day after the search for reasons that remain unclear, NYT has learned.
#law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-fbi-phone-call-georgia-gabbard.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Arrington said that while the #FBI had authorization to copy the records from a separate court order, he believes they did not have proper permission to take physical custody of the original 2020 ballots & voters rolls.
“They got copies of our voter rolls & all the original ballots,” Arrington said.
“Now we cannot verify that we’ve received everything back because there was no chain-of-custody inventory taken at the time the records were seized.” [FFS]
“I’ve asked the county attorney to take any & all steps available to fight this #criminal search warrant,” Arrington said Monday in a press release.
“The search warrant, I believe, is not proper, but I think that there are ways that we can limit it,” the statement continues. “We want to ask for forensic accounting, we want the documents to stay in the #State of #Georgia under seal, & we want to do whatever we can to protect voter information.”
Arrington said that the county’s attorneys are expected to file a lawsuit in federal court in the Northern District of #Georgia to fight the action of #Trump’s #DOJ & #FBI.
The FBI served a warrant last Wednesday at the #FultonCounty election office, near #Atlanta, Georgia, taking 700 boxes of #election materials as it probes alleged voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
Surprised they haven’t already
An official in #FultonCounty, #Georgia, announced the county will file a lawsuit Monday over the #FBI’s search & seizure of #2020election records.
Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. said the lawsuit will “challenge the legality of the warrant & the seizure of sensitive election records, & force the government to return the ballots taken.”
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #democracy #Trump #coup #MafiaState #authoritarianism #tyranny
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/politics/fulton-county-expected-to-sue-over-fbi-seizure-2020-election-records
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