… The Trump Justice Department is intervening in a long-simmering election integrity dispute over 2020 vote counting, demanding that Georgia's largest county turn over to federal officials records that they have refused to give under subpoena to state election regulators.Stay tuned ! https://t.co/WavmY1Sdu4
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) November 3, 2025
The request to Fulton County, home to the city of Atlanta, was sent last week by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon, whose division oversees election laws, after the State Elections Board had tried unsuccessfully for months to get certain historical election records from the count.
“Transparency seems to have been frustrated at multiple turns in Georgia,” Dhillon wrote. "The State Election Board has cited 'unexplained anomalies in vote tabulation and storage related to the 2020 election' in a letter to you dated November 7, 2024. The Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division has also been made aware, in correspondence to it on August 1, 2025 from voter transparency advocates, of multiple instances of government obstruction of transparency requests, including high-resolution ballot scans, signature verification documentation, and various metadata requests."
Dhillon said her goal was simply to ensure Georgia's latest county was complying with federal election laws, and to address any lingering questions about the 2020 vote count in that battleground.
"The purpose of this request is to ascertain Georgia's compliance with various provisions of the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act including, without limitation, compliance with provisions relating to election technology and administration standards," she wrote. "Courts have examined requests such as these and have concluded that, in the context of voter registration lists, such requests 'fit[] comfortably within this legal framework' of federal oversight."
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