Rights Groups Sue to Protect Voter Data Seized by FBI in Georgia Raid Tied to Trump
February 17, 2026
Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit to protect voter information seized by the FBI in Georgia. The FBI raided an elections warehouse in Fulton County on January 28, taking nearly 700 boxes of ballots and election materials. The raid was done at the request of Donald Trump, who is pushing to invalidate the 2020 election results.
On February 15, the NAACP and other groups filed a motion to stop the Trump administration from misusing the voter data. They said Trump "refusing to give up the ‘lost cause’, trampling even more voting and privacy rights." Damon Hewitt, head of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said, "The voters of Fulton County, or anywhere in the country, should not be collateral damage in this partisan political warfare."
The groups suing include the NAACP, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Atlanta NAACP branch, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, and others. They filed the suit with the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Trump recently suggested on a podcast that Republican officials should "take over" elections in 15 states to keep the party in power. This FBI raid is the latest effort by Trump to relitigate the 2020 election, which experts call the most secure ever. Many of Trump’s election challenges have failed, yet he continues to claim fraud without evidence.
The seized materials include all ballots, voting machine tapes, electronic ballot images, and voter rolls. Fulton County has asked the court to return the seized items.
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