Fulton County Moves to Quash DOJ Subpoena for 2020 Poll Workers

Fulton County's Board of Registration and Elections filed a motion on Monday in U.S. District Court to quash an April grand jury subpoena seeking names and contact information for 2020 election workers, court filings show.

The subpoena follows an FBI search in January that seized about 700 boxes of 2020 election material and is part of a Justice Department investigation tied to disputed claims about the 2020 election, filings and reporting say.

Robb Pitts, chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, called the subpoena an 'outrageous federal overreach designed to intimidate and to chill participation in elections' in a statement filed with the court.

The subpoena requests names, home addresses, emails and telephone numbers for thousands of election workers and volunteers, and voting rights advocates said roughly a third of election officials face threats while more than half worry about hiring and retention.

Fulton County argued the request is politically motivated, said statutes of limitations may bar prosecutions, and asked the judge to quash the subpoena while it continues seeking the return of records seized by federal agents, filings say.