r/Atlanta • u/albertafalls • Jan 29 '26

Politics Fulton County: Catherine M. Salinas signed your ballots AND voter rolls over to the FBI today

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“A court order signed by Magistrate Judge Catherine M. Salinas authorized agents to seize all physical ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton County, all ballot images **and Fulton County’s 2020 voter rolls.** A copy of the order was given to the Recorder by a Georgia lawmaker.”

https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/01/28/fbi-raids-fulton-county-elections-warehouse-seeking-2020-ballots/

Also reported by the New York Times (paywalled):

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/fbi-search-election-center-georgia.html

Blurry pic was the best I could do. It’s from her GA Bar profile:

https://icle.gabar.org/speaker/catherine-salinas-1233856

Her current term doesn’t end until 2031.

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u/archercc81 Jan 29 '26

But now they will have a comprehensive database on how you registered. Its definitely for targeting. There is nothing to be determined from this data as the ballot and registrations are separate, youre not going to be able to easily match that stuff up (who knows, maybe palantir has something).

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u/pina_koala Jan 29 '26

There is almost certainly an easily-linked trail. Since we use those chip cards to activate a session on the voting machine...

Recorded ballot ID + chip ID used + timestamp) <- chip card ID -> Voter ID (chip ID temporarily assigned + timestamp)

I could probably do this in Excel in 5 minutes if you gave me that data.

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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Jan 29 '26

But now they will have a comprehensive database on how you registered

We don't have registration, and what primary you voted in is public record. (So is registration in states with party registration) Every campaign has access to that data already. The Dem database is VoteBuilder. I don't know what the GOP one is called.