Active Force and coercion Updated
Seizure of ballots, machines or election materials
Law enforcement takes ballots, voting machines, or election records, on or around Election Day or afterward, often on a pretext. Election defense groups rank it among the most dangerous scenarios, since the disruption itself can be used to claim an election was compromised.
What has happened
- The FBI took more than three dozen hard drives and servers from the Arizona Senate's 2021 audit of Maricopa County's 2020 vote, under a federal grand jury subpoena. The original ballots were destroyed years ago under state law. Arizona joins the map: 3 states.
Where this threat is
- Active
- Developing
- Nothing marked
- Arizona Active since Mar 7, 2026
- Federal agents take election records under a grand jury subpoena. Arizona State Senate, Phoenix: FBI took 3 dozen-plus hard drives and servers from the 2021 audit of Maricopa County's 2020 vote · Mar 7, 2026
- Georgia Active
- Federal agents seize records from an election office. Fulton County election offices, Georgia, in January, based on debunked claims about the 2020 election
- Nevada Developing
- The Justice Department serves repeated subpoenas on a state election chief, most seeking voter data. Nevada Secretary of State's office, Nevada: seven subpoenas between June 16 and September 2