When heavily armed FBI agents in camouflage body armor raided a Fulton County government building last month and seized 2020 election records, Janice Johnston, a retired obstetrician and vice chair of the state’s election board, was there.
Law enforcement standing guard prevented Johnston from entering the warehouse, and she became frustrated she couldn’t monitor the seizure from the sidelines, according to three eyewitnesses who spoke to NOTUS. Johnston called out, “But it’s our subpoena!” according to David Worley, a Democratic former member of that board who was also present at the scene.
FBI teams seized what Fulton County Superior Court Clerk Ché Alexander said was 656 boxes of election documents as part of the Department of Justice’s criminal investigation into the 2020 election. But Johnston had been fighting for 15 months with a subpoena that demanded the Fulton County clerk turn over 2020 election records directly to her Gmail account.