Approaching a request deadline, county officials push forward with lawsuit to quash subpoenas seeking 2020 election records.
Fulton County elections workers sort and count absentee ballots during the county’s second recount of Presidential Election Day ballots at the Georgia World Congress Center on Nov. 25, 2020. (John Spink/AJC file)
Fulton County officials are approaching a deadline to comply with a request for a slew of records related to the 2020 election requested by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, with resistance.
Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts said the county has complied with the law regarding the 2020 election, and there’s nothing else to be done.
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Caleb Groves is a general assignment reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s politics team and a Kennesaw State University graduate.
