Justification unsealed for FBI's seizure of 2020 Fulton County ballots

A judge authorized the FBI's extraordinary seizure of all the ballots cast in Fulton County, Georgia during the 2020 election based largely on allegations from conservative activists that have been repeatedly rejected by state and local officials, according to court filings unsealed Tuesday.

Affidavits submitted to a federal court magistrate last month don't appear to contain any bombshell revelations of fraud, but instead a litany of alleged irregularities in ballot tallying and in the handling of related records, like digital scans of the paper ballots cast. The magistrate judge, Catherine Salinas, approved the seizure...