ATLANTA — Federal prosecutors are demanding contact details for every individual who participated in Georgia’s 2020 election operations in Fulton County, a Democratic-leaning area that former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed engaged in massive voter fraud that he alleges denied him victory over Joe Biden in that state.
County attorneys submitted a motion Monday evening attempting to block a grand jury subpoena requesting names and contact details of government workers and volunteer poll staff. This development follows the FBI’s January visit to a Fulton County election storage facility where agents confiscated ballots and additional materials from the 2020 contest, which Georgia’s official results confirmed Trump lost to Biden by 11,779 votes from almost 5 million ballots cast. Trump continues to maintain the 2020 contest was fraudulently taken from him despite court rulings and conclusions from his own attorney general stating otherwise.
In Monday’s legal document, attorneys claim the subpoena aims to “target, harass and punish the President’s perceived political opponents.” County lawyers contend the demand is “grossly overbroad and untethered to any reasonable need.”
The January confiscation of ballots and additional materials from Fulton County marked the beginning of several actions by Trump’s Republican administration to secure historical election documentation from key battleground states. Federal agents used a subpoena in March to obtain materials connected to a 2020 presidential election review in Arizona’s Maricopa County. Additionally, the Justice Department ordered Michigan’s Wayne County in April to surrender ballots from the 2024 contest, which Trump won against Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris.
Federal prosecutors are simultaneously pursuing legal battles with multiple states for voter information containing private personal details. Election administrators, including Republican officials, have stated that releasing such data would breach state and federal privacy regulations.
