Georgia election officials fight back against Trump’s 'fixation on 2020'

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, during the swearing-in ceremony for Sergio Gor as U.S. Ambassador to India, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 10, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Fulton County officials have had it with President Donald Trump’s attempt to discredit Georgia elections, namely the 2020 election that helped toss Trump from the White House.

“Why this fixation on 2020?” said Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts. “God only knows why.”

Fulton County officials are resisting an approachinga deadline to comply with a request for a slew of records related to the 2020 election by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. The Oct. 30 letter, sent by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, asked the county election board to produce the requested documents within 15 days. Information includes all the documents subpoenaed last year by the Republican-controlled State Elections Board, including voter lists, chain-of-custody forms, ballot images, documentation of security seals and ballot scanner paperwork.

But Pitts said the county has already complied with the law regarding the 2020 election, and there’s nothing else to be done.

Court filings from Sherri Allen and Fulton Elections Director Nadine Williams argue that the state board lacks the legal authority to re-litigate matters it has already resolved, according to AJC. Filings also estimate that searching for the documents requested in the subpoena would cost the county more than $375,000, including the cost of labor and copying documents.

Pitt may openly wonder about Trump’s “fixation” on 2020, but election experts say the Justice Department’s recent actions might go beyond re-litigating 2020 and have more to do with undermining confidence in the voting system for future elections.

“The purpose might be less to find anything wrong with the 2020 election than it would be to fuel false claims of stolen future elections,” said David Becker, a former Justice Department attorney who leads the nonprofitCenter for Election Innovation and Research.

Trump is also pushing for a legion of other election-related changes, in the run-up to a difficult midterm election for Republicans. He also wants to redraw congressional district maps, according to the AJC, and he is trying to legitimize the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election by issuing pardons for allies accused of aiding in that effort. AJC also points out that Trump’s DOJ is suing six states for voter information that will hopefully buttress his bogus argument that Biden did not win the 2020 election despite clear majorities.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports conservative critics of Fulton have sought more information about 2020 for years, and Trump’s intervention “marks rising tensions over the five-year-old election that could breathe new life into skepticism about Donald Trump’s narrow loss.”

Read the AJC report at this link.

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