Fabian GarciaWriting

We Walked Fulton County's Voter Rolls. A Week Later, the FBI Raided the Election Office.

Everyone keeps telling you Georgia has the cleanest voter rolls in the country. So I went to Fulton County with a camera and a copy of the official registration list, and I started visiting the addresses myself. What I found in a single afternoon should not be possible in a state that calls its elections secure. And about a week after I posted it, the FBI showed up.

Let me show you what I saw.

Start with the Peachtree Pine shelter in downtown Atlanta. It closed in 2017. Boarded windows, chained gates, no trespassing signs, nobody inside. According to the registration rolls the Secretary of State's office handed us, dozens of people are still actively registered to vote from that address. A building that has been shut for the better part of a decade, and the voters never came off the list.

That was not a one off. Around the corner we stood in front of a UPS store on Piedmont Road where, according to the same rolls, 96 people are registered to vote. Georgia law is not vague about this. A mailbox at a UPS store is not a residence. You cannot legally register to vote from a P.O. box. Ninety six people, one mailbox counter.

Then the churches. Across the street from the state Capitol sits an outreach center that runs two lines, one for services and one for mail. Thousands of people are registered to vote from that single building. The same operation pulls in government grant money, and we found it had paid a company tens of thousands of dollars just to write more grant applications. Follow that thread and you start to see the shape of it. A pipeline that signs up the homeless, parks them on the rolls and the benefit lists, and keeps the money flowing.

We were not done. We found people registered to vote at a public park with no house on it. At a juror parking lot next to a courthouse. At a bus stop. An actual bench. When we asked county officials about it, the answer was the same line every time. We do not respond to conspiracy theories.

Here is the thing. It is not a theory when you are standing on the spot and there is no front door.

I want to be careful about what I am and am not saying. I am not telling you I know who cast a ballot from a closed shelter. What I am telling you is that a registration at an address where no one lives is exactly the kind of crack a clean system is supposed to catch, and Fulton County is not catching it. The official in charge of those rolls, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, has spent years telling the public that Georgia's lists are among the best in the nation. I would invite him to come stand with me at the bus stop.

And remember the stakes. Trump lost Georgia in 2020 by 11,779 votes. Not per county. Statewide. So when you find this volume of garbage on the rolls in one county that touches Atlanta, you do not get to wave it off as housekeeping. The margin is smaller than the mess.

Now here is what happened after we posted what we found.

President Trump shared our investigation with his followers on Truth Social, not once but twice. The footage crossed 40 million views and trended worldwide. When the President of the United States is reposting your video of a shuttered shelter that still has voters on its rolls, the question stops being whether this is a story. It becomes why none of the people paid to catch this had bothered to look.

Then, about a week after the latest video, on January 28, 2026, the FBI raided Fulton County's election operations center and left under a federal warrant with boxes of 2020 ballots, ballot images, and voter records.

I am not going to sit here and tell you my video sent the FBI. I do not know that, and I am not going to pretend I do. What I will tell you is this. We took a camera and a few hours and found problems the people paid to find them swore did not exist. Then federal agents showed up at the same county's election office with a warrant.

You can call that a coincidence if you want. I would just ask one question. If the rolls really are the cleanest in the country, why did any of this happen at all?

I did the homework. The addresses are real. The law is clear. And the bus stop is still there.

Sources

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: FBI raids Fulton County election office →
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