Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has taken the extraordinary step of inserting herself into a federal probe of the 2020 election as she hunts for elusive evidence of voter fraud.

By Jonathan Landay, Jana Winter and Erin Banco WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees called on Thursday for U.S. President Donald Trump's chief spy to brief their panels on why she was present at an FBI raid on an election facility in Georgia.

Top state-level election officials react to the Jan. 28 raid on the Fulton County, Ga, elections office. The FBI executed a search warrant seeking ballots from the 2020 election.

Democratic election officials are preparing for potential federal government intrusion in the midterms, as President Donald Trump’s appointees escalate their efforts to find evidence for his long-debunked election fraud claims.

The Trump administration has recently escalated its efforts to prove widespread voter fraud in 2020. Election officials and top Republicans have repeatedly said these claims are baseless.

The Make Elections Great Again Act would end ranked choice voting in all federal elections.

The US president was in Iowa as the fallout over the killing of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis continues.

By Jana Winter WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The FBI is executing a search warrant at a Fulton County election office outside Atlanta related to an investigation into possible interference in Georgia in the 2020 U.

A federal judge has blocked certain federal agencies from requesting citizenship status when distributing voter registration forms.