Fulton County Election Investigation Update: Evidentiary Hearing Yesterday on Motion to Claw Back FBI-Seized Evidence

 

 

In January, the FBI executed a search warrant on the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center and seized over 650 boxes of election materials from the 2020 election.  The warrant was approved by a federal magistrate judge and based primarily on evidence from two Georgia State Election Board complaints.    

The three petitioners, Fulton County, the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections, and the Board of Commissioners, in their official capacities, have petitioned the court to claw back those documents from the FBI and Department of Justice, claiming they were seized unlawfully and that this seizure violated the First and Fourth Amendment rights of the petitioners.

Initially, the probable cause affidavit was challenged under Rule 41g, a motion to return property obtained through an unlawful search and seizure.  A federal judge ordered mediation between the two parties, which failed last week.  An evidentiary hearing was then ordered.

Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge J.P. Boulee of the Northern District of Georgia heard from two witnesses offered by the petitioners:  Fulton County Clerk of the Superior Court Che Alexander and the Elections Group's Ryan Macias.

In order for Fulton County to retain the records from the Department of Justice, they are required to meet a four-part substantive test.  According to VoterGA's Garland Favorito on X, those questions are:

1.  Did the government display a "callous disregard"  for the plaintiff's constitutional rights?
2. Did the plaintiff have an individual interest in and need for the material?
3. Will the plaintiff be irreparably injured by denial of the return of the property?
4. Does the plaintiff have an adequate remedy at law for the redress of their grievance?

 

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Fulton Ballot Seizure Criminal Investigation
Why are We Here?
Its Friday morning and we are attending an unprecedented “evidentiary hearing” for a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal procedure in the Pitts v. USA case challenging the… pic.twitter.com/jv2mpBKXTn

— Garland Favorito (@VoterGa) March 27, 2026

Favorito and his wife Tamara, who are intimately involved in the election investigation and several cases in the State of Georgia, were in attendance for the hours-long hearing yesterday.

According to Favorito, they spent "all day" on question #1, "callous disregard", of the substantive test.  "There's no conceivable way that you could reach a conclusion that there was callous disregard for the plaintiff's right because the [office of the] Clerk has no constitutional rights, number one, and the DOJ adhered to the normal procedures for getting the search warrant," Favorito stated.

"Today, we spent five hours asking the question whether or not the FBI displayed a 'callous disregard'.  They had the affidavit which has five different areas, any one of which would have justified probable cause.  So if four of them were wrong, they would still have probable cause," he continued.

Question #2, "Did the plaintiff have an individual interest and need for the material", was argued that it fails because in June 2024, Elections Director Nadine Williams had previously requested to the court, in a case brought by Favorito, that the ballots be destroyed, thus negating any "interest of need for the material."

A video was played during the hearing where this request was made before a Georgia court.  So is the petition about retaining something with "an individual interest and need for the material" or is it about destroying evidence that could support the claims made in the probable cause affidavit?

Petitioners argued it was because they didn't have room for the election material, however, Favorito pointed out that the request was made three weeks after they purchased a $30 million, 660,000-square-foot warehouse for elections.

The argument regarding question #3, "Will the plaintiff be irreparably injured by denial of the return of the property?", is laughable.

"They actually tried to say that they would [be irreparably injured] for a reason that was just so unbelievable because they said well, now with all of this exposure, there's all these open records requests and we have to have the original records in order to fulfill those open records requests," Tamara Favorito said.  "I just wanted to stand up and scream, 'You've got to be kidding me!...Now they want to fill the open records requests!"

Ryan Macias, who worked for the non-governmental organizations The Elections Group at the time, also testified.  Favorito said that during the hearing, it came up that Macias was paid $400 per hour for 50-plus hours worth of work and was involved in the elections process in Fulton County.  "By default, being conflicted, that should have been enough to boot his testimony right out of there," Favorito stated.

In January, The Gateway Pundit reported that Joseph Rossi, who is party to an amicus brief submitted in this case, testified before the Georgia State Election Board last January that The Elections Group was party to an email in which Fulton County acknowledged that it was aware of a discrepancy in the audit-turned-hand-count in November 2020.

This discrepancy was eventually discovered by Rossi and confirmed by Governor Brian Kemp.  It became the subject of SEB Complaint 2021-181 and part of the probable cause affidavit in the warrant obtained by the FBI. 

Leftist Bob Costas Admits Men Have No Business in Women’s Sports: ‘Common Sense Is Not Transphobic’

 While affirming his leftist perspective on the world, sportscaster Bob Costas said that action by the International Olympic Committee to ban men from women’s events is simply common sense.

The IOC acted Thursday to ban men from women’s sports, beginning with the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

“As a former athlete, I passionately believe in the rights of all Olympians to take part in fair competition,” IOC president Kristy Coventry, a former gold medal Olympian, said in a statement posted on the IOC website, adding, “At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat.”

“So, it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category. In addition, in some sports it would simply not be safe,” she said.

In a video posted to X, Costas took a stand in favor of transgender individuals, but also supported a ban on men facing women in sports.

“Give me enough time to address this, so I’m not misunderstood. There are people who use this issue cynically, for political purposes, and they’re demonizing people who happen to be trans, who should be treated with respect and dignity and understanding,” he said.

Legendary Broadcaster Bob Costas supporters The International Olympic Committees ban on men in women’s sports 👏

“Common sense is not transphobic…this policy is common sense.”

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— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) March 27, 2026

Liberal chops established, he went on to add: “However, common sense is not transphobic.”

“There’s a reason why the high school champions don’t compete with the college champions. There is a reason why no trans man, who was once a woman, and has become a man, has ever competed successfully with men in the Olympics,” he said.

“There is a reason why there are men’s and women’s sports, and why Title IX was one of the truly progressive pieces of legislation in the best sense of the word,” he said. Title IX is the federal legislation that requires women to have equal opportunity in education and was the foundation for the growth of women’s sports at the high school and college levels.

Costas referenced the fiasco of Lia Thomas, a man who was allowed to swim against women, winning races, breaking records, and snaring awards, saying “it doesn’t make any sense” to have allowed him to compete.

“If that’s what the person wants to do, that person should be treated with dignity and respect,” Costas said, “but there ought to be common sense, and common sense is not transphobic.”

The IOC policy change was cheered by many.

“An organization is finally standing up to say that women matter — their hopes and dreams, their ability to push themselves and pursue excellence on a safe and level playing field — it matters. Now is the time for the NCAA to stand up and say the same,” Kaylie Ray, an NCAA volleyball player, said, according to the New York Post.

“For the young women who work endlessly to reach the Olympic level, their protection matters too. For the girls who strive to compete at the collegiate level, their opportunities cannot be taken by men anymore,” Ray said.

Kim Jones, who had two daughters and one son swim for Yale, said that during the Lia Thomas era, the college kowtowed to transgender athletes at the expense of everyone else, according to Fox News, saying the athletic department “felt like North Korea,”

“They terrorized the girls … they pulled them into mandatory meetings. They intimidated, coerced, threatened, and emotionally blackmailed them,” Jones said.

“They were told that they were going to be, that they were to be held accountable for any harm that came to folks in their communities that identified as transgender,” she said.

WATCH: Maryland Homeowner Goes Viral After Hiring Roofing Crew Employing Illegals, Calling ICE on Them as They Finished the Job — Six Workers Detained on Her Roof

 

A homeowner in Cambridge, Maryland, has gone viral after allegedly calling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a roofing crew she hired, leading to the detention of six Guatemalan workers on her roof just as they were about to finish the job.

The incident took place on Wednesday and was livestreamed on TikTok.

According to eyewitness accounts and footage captured live from the roof, ICE agents arrived at the property, secured the perimeter, and took the six workers into custody while they were still working.

A legal coworker on the crew, Bryan Polanco, a Dominican national with permanent U.S. residency, livestreamed the entire encounter for approximately 30 minutes.

Polanco, who was not detained, narrated the events and later confronted the homeowner on camera, accusing her of waiting until the job was almost done before calling authorities.

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In the video, Polanco can be heard stating that the workers had completed roughly three days of labor, including the tear-off phase, with old shingles visible on the ground, and that the homeowner still owed the crew approximately $10,000. He claimed she knew the workers’ immigration status from the start.

The video shows agents in tactical vests on the ground directing the workers to come down from the roof.

One clip even appears to capture the homeowner handing a ladder to the agents to help them gain access to the workers.

The roofing company involved appears to be Allied Remodeling of Central MD, based on the shirts worn by the workers, though the company has not issued a statement about the incident.

According to a Univision report about the incident in Spanish, the men were between 18 and 40.

“We had a project to start today… when they started the work, the owner of the house called immigration,” Polanco told Univision DC, according to a translation of the report. “What she did tell me, and I told one of the other guys, is that if immigrants come back again to finish the project, she’s always going to call ICE.”

“It is not the same to see it as to live it, it is that I have already seen many videos and sadly today I had to experience it and I feel that it is something that really moves you a lot,” Polanco added.