Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard enters the Fulton County Election HUB as the FBI takes Fulton County 2020 Election ballots, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Union City, Ga., near Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
The most important thing to know about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s seizure of 2020 election ballots and other material in Fulton County, Ga., is that she knows what happened to Attorney General Bill Barr. When Barr told President Trump in December 2020 that the Department of Justice could find no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to overturn the results of the election, Trump demanded his resignation.
Trump doesn’t want to be told he lost the 2020 election, and Gabbard doesn’t want to be fired.
Election fraud can and does occur, although typically in much lower numbers than one might expect, given all the publicity about it — especially from Trump. The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Map has a listing of election-fraud cases brought in the states. Although Heritage says the 50-state map is not exhaustive, it lists only 1,620 cases. That sounds like a lot, until you realize the map covers the 43-year period from 1982 to 2025.
The website’s three “Currently Featured” cases include that of Samunta Shomine Pittman, also from Fulton County, who was charged with “with 70 counts of felony fraudulent entries for filling out and letting others fill out fictitious names on voter registration applications.” Note that these are voter registrations, not actual votes.