Justice department allegedly investigating debunked 2020 Georgia election fraud claims [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Fri 14 Nov 2025 07.00 EST
Last modified on Fri 14 Nov 2025 10.39 EST


Members of Georgia’s election denial movement have claimed in recent weeks that the justice department is investigating debunked fraud claims in the state stemming from the 2020 election.

The development would be just the latest in a series of moves by Trump acolytes at the Department of Justice who are transforming the voting section of the agency from an office focused on protecting Americans’ voting rights to one that is in lockstep with an election denial movement that incessantly demands investigations and drastic reductions in access to the polls based on Donald Trump’s lies about elections.

On 2 October, Republicans from the Georgia legislature invited several election deniers to speak at a hearing designed to help lawmakers decide whether to end the state’s membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center, or Eric, an organization that helps election officials remove ineligible voters from voter rolls.

Among those invited was Mark Davis, a political consultant and frequent voter registration challenger. Davis’s presentation was titled “Felony Residency Violations”, and alleged that hundreds of thousands of Georgia voters may have voted illegally in recent elections because they had moved, but had voted in their former jurisdictions. “On September 10th, I received a call from an investigator with the Department of Justice about these specific violations,” Davis claimed. Neither Davis nor the justice department responded to requests for comment.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/georgia-2020-elections-justice-department