Wisconsin County Clerk Says FBI Agent Visited Election Director's Home

A county clerk in Wisconsin said a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent tried to interview the county election director at her home and issued a statement backing the state's conduct of the 2020 presidential election.

"I can confirm that a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited the home of my Elections Director and left her business card," Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said in a statement Thursday morning.

"We will be following up to determine the nature of this visit. It is unfortunate that the FBI chose to visit the private residence of Milwaukee County’s Elections Director rather than contact the Election Commission’s office directly. No dedicated public servant should be subjected to that type of intrusion simply for carrying out her responsibilities with integrity and professionalism."

Christenson defended the state’s handling of the 2020 presidential election as "fair and transparent" and stated "this has been proven repeatedly over the last six years by the post-election canvass, the Presidential Election Recount, State court-based challenge, Federal court-based challenge, the forensic audit by the Wisconsin’s Legislative Audit Bureau, and two additional independent audits. Continuing to relitigate settled questions does not strengthen public confidence in elections but it undermines it."

"While we cooperate with all legitimate law enforcement actions, we will defend against any attack on our democracy and will defend the rights of voters of Milwaukee County," Christenson wrote. "Our responsibility as election officials is to safeguard the integrity of the process through facts, transparency, and adherence to the law, and the record clearly demonstrates that those standards were met in 2020."

Christenson suggested the FBI's actions amount to an "attack on democracy."

The FBI declined to comment.

Milwaukee County, the state's largest, has faced claims from conservatives of problems with the 2020 election. The FBI has pursued election integrity investigations nationwide.

In January, agents searched Fulton County's main election office in Union City, near Atlanta, targeting 2020 election records under a court warrant, Fox Atlanta reported.

An affidavit showed the bureau examined ballot irregularities and record-keeping issues in Georgia, which President Donald Trump lost by a narrow margin to President Joe Biden. The state emerged as a focus for Trump's fraud allegations after 2020.

In March, the FBI subpoenaed 2020 voting documents in Arizona. Multiple U.S. officials told Fox News the Justice Department is reviewing a large set of data from Arizona's 2020 and 2024 elections.