"The optimistic story about the FBI's surprising Wednesday raid on Fulton County, Georgia, voting offices to seize ballots and electronic materials related to the 2020 election is that it's another instance of the United States Department of Justice and other parts of the federal government indulging in Donald Trump's fantastical belief that he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden in 2020 because of fraud."
"The pessimistic story is far darker. It's about the raid being a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026, when control of both houses of Congress could be at stake. Now is the time for state and local governments, the courts, and the people to work against such potential election subversion."
"The Fulton County saga goes back to the hotly contested 2020 presidential election, which was conducted in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Donald Trump was an unpopular incumbent running against former Vice President Joe Biden. Many states made it easier for people to vote by mail in 2020, which was much safer than voting in person and potentially getting sick."
An FBI raid on Fulton County voting offices seized ballots and electronic materials tied to the 2020 election. One interpretation frames the raid as the Department of Justice responding to Donald Trump's persistent, unsubstantiated fraud claims; such an inquiry could yield little and any charges might be time-barred or focused on retribution rather than intentional violations of federal election laws. A darker interpretation sees the raid as a test for disrupting election administrators and ballot counting ahead of the 2026 midterms, threatening control of Congress. State and local governments, courts, and citizens must act to prevent potential election subversion.
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