Fight for Fulton County’s 2020 election ballots heats up as Trump DOJ enters arena

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President Donald Trump never accepted his loss in Georgia during the 2020 election, a state he won in 2016 and still views today as a symbol for a national epidemic of election irregularities.

Prior to former President Joe Biden‘s 2020 inauguration, he defeated Trump in Georgia by 11,779 votes, flipping the state for the first time since 1992. Subsequent reviews from 2020 found “myriad problems” with absentee ballot processing but not evidence of fraud. Still, no place has loomed larger in Trump’s disputes than Fulton County, the Democratic stronghold at the center of recurring questions about ballot handling, tabulation accuracy, and transparency.

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