The FBI has used a federal grand jury subpoena to quietly seize a huge amount of election records from Arizona’s Maricopa County, a huge move to expand the criminal investigation into suspected 2020 election rigging that already reached Georgia earlier this year.
Just the News reported that federal agentsseized gigabytes of election data this weekend in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix and roughly 4.4 million residents.
The move follows the FBI’s January raid on a Fulton County, Georgia election warehouse, where agents seized ballots from the 2020 election. The FBI said they’ve “substantiated” major irregularities in how votes were counted in Georgia’s largest county and are investigating whether those failures were intentional violations of federal election law.
“Some of those allegations have been disproven while some of those allegations have been substantiated, including through admissions by Fulton County,” FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans said. “This warrant application is part of an FBI criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”
House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R. Wisc., said the findings could be significant in a recent interview.
“We’re digging back through those reports that were submitted by our election observers that were deployed across the country,” Steil said. “We have reports documenting instances that occurred in Arizona and across the country, and we are reviewing those in real time and working hand in glove with federal partners to make sure that the law was followed in every jurisdiction in the country.”
Concerns about election integrity in Maricopa County stretch back years. The Republican-led Arizona state Senate conducted a sweeping audit of the 2020 election and concluded there were significant irregularities in the election.
The FBI’s probe is expected to grow. Sources told Just the News that federal agents are likely to execute searches and subpoenas in additional states beyond Georgia and Arizona in the coming weeks.