The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided a Fulton County, Georgia, elections office in January, seizing voter records and ballots at the request of an attorney who worked with President Donald to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a newly unsealed affidavit written by an FBI agent and revealed on Feb. 10.
FBI special agent Hugh Raymond Evans wrote in the court record that the probe “originated from a referral sent by Kurt Olsen, presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity.”
Olsen was previously sanctioned by a federal judge for making “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” before being hired by the Trump administration in 2025 to investigate the election.
The affidavit outlines what the agent deemed as five “deficiencies or defects” related to the 2020 election and the subsequent counting of votes.
The five deficiencies include issues with the number of scanned ballot images in the possession of the county, multiple scans of ballots during a recount, and inconsistencies in relation to an audit of the ballots.
On Jan. 28, FBI agents executed a search warrant that authorized the seizure of all physical ballots from a Fulton County elections office related to the 2020 general election. All ballot images, voter rolls, and tabulator tapes for every voting machine were taken as part of the seizure.
U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, questioned why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was present during the raid.
"The newly unsealed affidavit shows this search originated from the frivolous claims of Kurt Olsen, an attorney who traffics in debunked falsehoods about the 2020 election," Warner posed in a statement. "It also makes clear there was no foreign intelligence nexus ... So why was the Director of National Intelligence there?"
Gabbard previously wrote to Democratic leadership in both the House and Senate intelligence committees that her presence aligned with U.S. law and her duties as the country’s top intelligence official.
