JUST IN: FBI Secretly Seizes Voting Records Of Massive Blue County

The FBI has quietly expanded its criminal investigation into suspected election irregularities, obtaining a grand jury subpoena for a massive trove of voting records from Arizona’s largest county, according to multiple people familiar with the probe.

Sources told Just the News that agents have begun receiving gigabytes of electronic election data from Maricopa County. The subpoena comes about a month after the bureau revealed it was investigating potential election misconduct by raiding a warehouse near Atlanta and seizing ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia.

The latest move in Arizona comes five years after the Republican-led Arizona Senate launched an extensive review of the 2020 election and said it uncovered significant irregularities.

More recently, the FBI was alerted to a report from bipartisan election observers who said they witnessed questionable activity in November 2024 at an Arizona warehouse where both blank and completed absentee ballots were stored together, the sources said.

The report from the observers has never been released publicly by Congress. The staffers had been sent to monitor the 2024 election in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix and the state’s largest population center.

House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil recently signaled the report could carry weight during an appearance on the Just the News, No Noise television show.

“We’re digging back through those reports that were submitted by our election observers that were deployed across the country,” Steil said. “This is where working hand in glove with other federal government agencies is so important.

“We have reports documenting instances that occurred in Arizona and across the country, and we are reviewing those in real time and working hand in glove with federal partners to make sure that the law was followed in every jurisdiction in the country,” he added.

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According to sources, the joint report filed by one Republican and one Democratic observer who were stationed in Maricopa County on election night in 2024 included photographs of ballots and the facility where they were stored. The warehouse was described as heavily secured and containing ballots tied to multiple states’ elections.

Officials familiar with the probe said the report was among several pieces of evidence that helped form the basis for the FBI subpoena issued in recent days, Just The News reported.

The investigation may soon widen. Sources said the bureau is expected to pursue additional searches and subpoenas in other states beyond Georgia and Arizona in the coming weeks.

Federal authorities have offered few public details about the full scope of the probe. But an unsealed affidavit tied to the earlier raid of Fulton County’s election center showed investigators are examining whether election officials violated federal laws requiring administrators to follow state rules when distributing and counting ballots.

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FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans told a court that investigators have already confirmed some significant irregularities tied to how votes were counted in Georgia’s largest urban county following the 2020 election.

“Some of those allegations have been disproven while some of those allegations have been substantiated, including through admissions by Fulton County,” Evans wrote. “This warrant application is part of an FBI criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”

Several of the allegations surrounding Fulton County had been reported previously by Just the News after the outlet reviewed ballot records over the past five years.

Questions about election procedures in Arizona, particularly in Maricopa County, stretch back more than a decade, dating to the state’s shift toward widespread mail-in voting. Early complaints about the system initially came from Democrats.

In recent years, however, Republicans, including President Donald Trump, former Arizona gubernatorial and Senate candidate Kari Lake, and now-U.S. Rep. Abe Hamadeh, have raised alarms about ballot distribution and vote-counting procedures in the state.

After the COVID-era 2020 election, Arizona’s Senate conducted an expansive audit and reported several irregularities. Among the most striking findings was an estimate that more than 200,000 ballots with mismatched signatures may have been counted without undergoing the “curing” process required for verification in Maricopa County. County officials had previously acknowledged roughly 25,000 signature mismatches requiring curing.

The audit did little to settle the dispute. Democrats and Maricopa County officials have argued the concerns are exaggerated, while Republicans maintain vulnerabilities remain in the system.

Those tensions are still playing out as Arizona prepares for the 2026 election cycle.

Maricopa County’s newly elected recorder, Justin Heap, has recently clashed with the county’s Board of Supervisors over election planning, with the dispute spilling into court.

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