Fulton County, Georgia, officials said Wednesday that the FBI seized original 2020 voting records while serving a search warrant at the county's Elections Hub and Operations Center.

The FBI earlier Wednesday said they were conducting court-authorized activity at the facility.

President Trump has persistently claimed voter fraud in The Fulton county area since the 2020 election. Georgia officials audited and certified the results following the election.
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Fulton County officials expressed fear over the seizure of the evidence.

"These are the original voting records, original absentee ballots," Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington, a Democrat Socialist, told ABC News regarding the materials seized by the FBI. "Once that stuff leaves our custody, where is the chain of custody? How can we know if we're going to get everything back? How can we know if they might” find “something mischievous?"
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Democrat Socialist County Commissioner Mo Ivory said the boxes of ballots, which were previously archived and sealed, are stored on pallets -- and that the FBI was "removing the whole pallets."

"So how can we inventory what they're taking?" Ivory asked. With the obvious answer being, it should already have been inventoried.
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The search warrant authorized the FBI to search for "All physical ballots from the 2020 General Election," in addition to tabulator tapes from voting machines and 2020 voter rolls, among other documents, according to a copy of the warrant obtained by ABC affiliate WSB.
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The warrant says the material "constitutes evidence of the commission of a criminal offense" and had been "used as the means of committing a criminal offense." It was signed by Magistrate Judge Catherine Salinas.

Specifically, the warrant listed possible violations of two statutes -- one which requires election records to be retained for a certain amount of time, and another which outlines criminal penalties for people, including election officials, who intimidate voters or to knowingly procure false votes or false voter registrations.
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The election fraud allegations look more and more true as the story continues to unfold years later.

story originally published here: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-...y?id=129644345