The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against a Georgia county seeking access to 2020 voting records, as Donald Trump continues to assert the presidential election was stolen from him.
The justice department lawsuit asks the state to turn over “all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County”.
The government accuses the county of violating the Civil Rights Act, after local officials said that the ballots were sealed and could not be produced without a court order.
Trump narrowly lost the state of Georgia to Joe Biden in 2020 – one of several losses that cost him the White House.
According to the lawsuit, the justice department sent a subpoena to Fulton County election officials in October demanding the ballot materials, citing a need to investigate “compliance with federal election law”.
In a statement on Friday, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhill
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