The FBI raid of the Fulton County election office in Georgia last month was based on debunked claims from election deniers, according to a search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday. The raid came after a referral from Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election. One of the debunked claims listed in the affidavit comes from a so-called citizen researcher named Joe Rossi, who claimed that the number of ballot images for Fulton County did not match the total number of ballots cast. But the state of Georgia did a machine and hand recount of the ballots and confirmed the tally. David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said, “How an agent could sign off on an affidavit, and a magistrate sign off on a warrant, that confirms there’s no evidence of intent to commit a federal crime, is hard to fathom.”