{"id":65949,"date":"2026-02-10T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/fbi-reviewing-fulton-county-vote-count-deficiencies-court-docs-reveal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:01:42","slug":"fbi-reviewing-fulton-county-vote-count-deficiencies-court-docs-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/fbi-reviewing-fulton-county-vote-count-deficiencies-court-docs-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI reviewing Fulton County vote-count \u2018deficiencies,\u2019 court docs reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is investigating Fulton County\u2019s handling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 election<\/a>, according to newly filed search warrant affidavits outlining alleged ballot irregularities and record-keeping failures.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI special agent who wrote the affidavits, which were filed Tuesday in federal court by the Department of Justice, described a wide-ranging probe into missing ballot images, inconsistent recount totals and chain-of-custody problems, raising allegations long leveled by President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> and his base.<\/p>\n<p>The agent, Hugh Evans of the FBI Atlanta Field Office, said in the affidavits that physical ballots were needed to determine whether the irregularities were administrative errors or intentional.<\/p>\n<p>Evans said the FBI investigation originated from a referral the bureau received from Kurt Olsen, who is described as a Trump-appointed director of election security and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The affidavits come after the FBI executed court-authorized search warrants at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in January and explain the probable cause used to justify the warrants.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is investigating Fulton County\u2019s handling of the 2020 election, according to newly filed search warrant affidavits outlining alleged ballot irregularities and record-keeping failures. The FBI special agent who wrote the affidavits, which were filed Tuesday in federal court by the Department of Justice, described a wide-ranging probe into missing ballot images, inconsistent recount &#8230; <a title=\"FBI reviewing Fulton County vote-count \u2018deficiencies,\u2019 court docs reveal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/fbi-reviewing-fulton-county-vote-count-deficiencies-court-docs-reveal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FBI reviewing Fulton County vote-count \u2018deficiencies,\u2019 court docs reveal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}