Overview
- - Fulton County’s case reached an evidentiary hearing Friday, March 27, after court-ordered mediation failed, and the judge took the request to return more than 600 boxes of 2020 ballots under advisement.
- - U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee on Thursday quashed the county’s subpoena for FBI Special Agent Hugh Evans, citing law-enforcement privilege and the risk of exposing an active investigation.
- - County lawyers said the search-warrant affidavit misstated or omitted key facts and relied on debunked claims, while Justice Department attorneys pointed to a magistrate’s prior probable-cause finding and denied any effort to mislead the court.
- - Testimony and filings described what agents are probing, including missing ballot images, possible double scans during a recount, absentee ballots that did not appear folded like mailed ballots, and irregularities in tabulator tapes.
- - The probe began with a referral from Trump ally Kurt Olsen, and federal lawyers say they must keep the original ballots even after sharing digital copies, while county leaders warn the approach could spur similar seizures elsewhere.