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Fulton County Seeks to Block Federal Subpoena for 2020 Election Worker Records
The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections filed a motion to quash a federal grand jury subpoena seeking names, addresses, emails and phone numbers of thousands of people who worked the November 2020 General Election in Georgia. The subpoena was issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina.
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Fulton County, Georgia, has asked a federal judge to quash a grand jury subpoena that demands personal identifying information for thousands of county election workers and volunteers who helped administer the November 2020 General Election. On May 4, 2026, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections filed a 27-page motion in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
The original subpoena was issued under seal on April 17, 2026, by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina. It was served on the board around April 20 and set a production deadline of May 5. The subpoena seeks names, positions, residential addresses, email addresses and personal telephone numbers for essentially the entire 2020 Fulton election workforce.
It lists specific categories including mail-in ballot reviewers, Voter Review Panel members, mobile voting unit operators, ballot transporters, precinct managers, tabulator operators, risk-limiting audit participants and recount workers. Records were not directed to a grand jury in Atlanta.
They were instead to be delivered to an out-of-district prosecutor and an FBI special agent.
Rather than comply quietly, the board filed its motion to quash publicly without requesting that it be sealed. ” Board lawyers described it as “unprecedented and harassing,” “grossly overbroad,” “untethered to any reasonable need,” and an unconstitutional burden on the First Amendment rights of election workers that could chill future participation.
The motion also cites the five-year statute of limitations on 2020-related federal crimes. It acknowledges that limitations periods can be tolled if evidence of concealment, false statements or an ongoing criminal conspiracy is found.
