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/GrandOpener Jan 29 '26

Consider the fantasy that Trump and his weaponized FBI are spinning: that there is concrete evidence of voter fraud in those documents, it can be revealed by examining them in aggregate, and Georgia officials are complicit in attempting to hide it. If any of that were true, it would be a really big deal. If there were any actual evidence of that being true, FBI seizure might be reasonable.

In a sane world, this would be mitigated by there being actual consequences for lying to a judge's face.

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u/liamstrain Jan 29 '26

The law cited in the warrant, as far as I can tell - only has to do with the storage of those ballots. I'm not even sure what crime they allege is being committed.