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The Department of Justice (DoJ) is suing Fulton County, Georgia, in order to obtain voting records from the 2020 election.
The suit, filed on Thursday, stems from a resolution passed in July by the State Election Board of Georgia “calling upon the assistance of the Attorney General to effect compliance with voting transparency.”
In October, the DoJ requested “all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County,” but the request was denied. Fulton County officials said the records would “remain under seal” unless a court order was obtained.
Fulton County, Georgia—the state’s most populous and heavily Democratic county—was at the heart of widespread allegations of electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
These claims centered on activities at the county’s main vote counting center at State Farm Arena and contributed to efforts to challenge Joe Biden’s narrow victory in the state. Biden won by about 11,800 votes statewide, with Fulton providing a significant margin in his favor.
On Friday, the DoJ announced it would also be suing Colorado, Massachusetts, Hawaii and Nevada over their failures to comply with requests to produce their voter-registration records.
A further fourteen states face similar challenges from the DoJ.
“States have the statutory duty to preserve and protect their constituents from vote dilution,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement.
“At this Department of Justice, we will not permit states to jeopardize the integrity and effectiveness of elections by refusing to abide by our federal elections laws. If states will not fulfill their duty to protect the integrity of the ballot, we will.”
The requests are a response to President Trump’s Executive Order issued in March on “Preserving the Protecting the Integrity of Elections.” President Trump asked the DoJ to investigate whether states are checking the citizenship status of voters, as required by federal law.
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