The FBI raided the Fulton County election office on January 28, 2024, after receiving a referral from Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election. The search warrant affidavit, unsealed Tuesday, shows the request was based on repeated but debunked claims from election deniers. About 700 boxes of election materials were seized during the raid. Olsen, who joined the White House to address alleged election integrity problems, urged the Justice Department to challenge the 2020 election results at the Supreme Court. The FBI's investigation heavily features conservative activists and two Trump-aligned Georgia election board members, Janice Johnston and Janelle King, who Trump praised as "pit bulls". FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans stated in the affidavit that the seized records might prove allegations of destroyed or false votes through tactics like duplicated ballot scans or inserting pristine ballots. Despite Trump losing Georgia by nearly 12,000 votes and multiple recounts confirming the outcome, these claims continue to fuel his false narrative of a stolen election. One claim from citizen researcher Joe Rossi said the number of ballot images in Fulton County did not match total ballots cast. Georgia’s official machine and hand recount disproved this. The state election board later reprimanded Fulton County for minor procedural issues. Activists also alleged mishandling of voting machine tabulator tapes. A review found irregularities, but former state election officials insisted all votes were accounted for. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger acknowledged 315,000 ballot tapes were unsigned, calling it an administrative error that didn’t impact results. Susan Voyles, a witness working during the hand count, reported handling "pristine" ballots with identical votes. This claim featured in a dismissed 2021 lawsuit due to lack of evidence. Voyles previously led Georgia’s Eagle Forum and ran for Congress as a Republican. Election expert David Becker called the affidavit a "total rehash of rejected and debunked claims" and questioned how officials approved a warrant with no evidence of federal crime intent. Raffensperger, now campaigning for governor, urged moving past these "baseless and repackaged claims" to focus on Georgia’s future. The government attorney on the warrant was Thomas Albus, appointed to investigate election integrity issues. The raid has raised fears of Trump interfering in upcoming midterm elections. Those fears grew after intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, reportedly conducting a separate investigation, was present at the raid.