Election officials in Fulton County, Ga., are asking a federal judge to block the Justice Department (DOJ) from obtaining the identities of thousands of individuals who worked on the 2020 election.

Officials in Georgia’s Fulton County are asking a court to stop a U.S. Department of Justice effort to obtain personal information about individuals who worked during the 2020 election.

County attorneys filed a motion to quash the federal grand jury subpoena in Georgia federal court, describing it as an act of politically motivated harassment and arguing that any criminal prosecution...