DOJ Sues Fulton County for 2020 Election Records

Is this federal enforcement of long-overdue election transparency, or a politicized effort to revive debunked 2020 fraud claims and access sensitive voter data?
DOJ Sues Fulton County for 2020 Election Records
Above: Fulton County election workers process absentee ballots in Union City, Georgia on Nov. 4, 2020. Image credit: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-Trump narrative

After five years of stonewalling, the truth is finally coming out. The DOJ lawsuit confirms what many Georgians have said all along: Fulton County never produced a single legally signed tabulator tape for 315,000 early votes in 2020 — zero signatures, zero certification, zero legal authority. Identical counters, missing tapes and duplicated scanners show a collapsed audit trail, not “debunked” claims. Those insisting it’s settled simply haven’t looked at the evidence themselves. Accountability is overdue, and election integrity is finally seeing daylight.

Anti-Trump narrative

The DOJ’s lawsuit is a reckless escalation of Trump’s long-running effort to relitigate a decisively lost election. After years of investigations cleared Fulton County, this administration is weaponizing federal power to revive debunked conspiracies, targeting a Democratic stronghold to appease election deniers and intimidate officials who upheld the results. The suit also raises serious data-privacy concerns, seeking sealed ballots and sensitive voter records years after the election, risking exposure of private information to satisfy a political vendetta.




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