"U.S. District Judge Jean-Paul Boulee declared on Wednesday that Fulton County did not sufficiently prove that the FBI acted with "callous disregard" when it secured a search warrant to execute its January raid. The decision centered on an affidavit written by an FBI agent claiming that there were five "deficiencies or defects" with the 2020 election and how Fulton County counted its ballots. The county pushed back by arguing the FBI agent left out critical context about its ballot-counting procedures and ignored the fact that Georgia's 2020 election had been thoroughly looked at and investigated and no fraud was found."
"But even more telling than the content of the affidavit was who it came from: "The criminal investigation in this case originated with a referral from Kurt Olsen, the presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity." Olsen is a widely known election deni"
Fulton County in Georgia sued to regain sensitive voter data seized during an FBI raid of its election office. A Trump-appointed judge denied the request, increasing the stakes for the government’s case. The ruling found Fulton County did not sufficiently prove the FBI acted with “callous disregard” when obtaining and executing the search warrant. The decision relied on an FBI agent’s affidavit citing alleged “deficiencies or defects” in the 2020 election and in how ballots were counted. Fulton County argued the affidavit omitted key context about its procedures and ignored that the 2020 election had already been investigated with no fraud found. The affidavit also traced the investigation’s origin to a referral from Kurt Olsen, a presidentially appointed election security director.
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