Judge denies Fulton County's request to return 2020 ballots seized by FBI

A national justice successful Georgia denied a question by officials successful Fulton County, Georgia, to instrumentality ballots and different materials from the 2020 predetermination that were taken by the FBI successful a court-authorized hunt earlier this year.

U.S. District Judge Jean-Paul Boulee said Wednesday that attorneys representing Fulton County did not found capable grounds to beryllium that the FBI affidavit astatine the halfway of the lawsuit was deficient successful a mode that had a "callous disregard" for the county's rights.

Boulee, however, said that the affidavit was "defective successful immoderate respects" by including misleading statements astir the last ballot number successful 2020 successful the county, and that determination were "troubling" omissions astir ballot mechanisms successful the documents.

"While the Affidavit was surely acold from perfect, this is not a concern wherever an serviceman near retired each the facts that mightiness undermine probable origin oregon wherever an serviceman intentionally lied," Boulee wrote, adding, "the Court cannot accidental that the Affidavit was truthful deficient that its shortcomings emergence to the "high[] threshold" of callous disregard."

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