The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a raid at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center (EHOC) as well as the Fulton County Superior Clerk’s Office.
Sources confirmed to Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne that the investigation is connected to the 2020 election.
A state source with direct knowledge of the situation tells Winne that the FBI is there to take custody of Fulton County election ballots.
For years, President Donald Trump and his close allies have pushed unproven allegations that the 2020 election was rigged in Georgia.
During that election, Fulton County utilized State Farm Arena in Downtown Atlanta as a place to count ballots.
Surveillance video from the counting site ended up being used to help support unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud by President Trump and his allies.
The first mention of the video came during a state Senate committee hearing following the election, where Trump attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said the video showed election workers throwing Republicans out of the room and counting “suitcases” of illegal ballots in the middle of the night.
“I think that today revealed the smoking gun we’ve been looking for. The video makes it clear,” Giuliani told Channel 2’s Richard Elliot following the first day of those hearings. “They took ballots from under a table and counted them in the middle of the night. This is what they were doing all throughout the country. Luckily, there is now a tape of it.”