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What does a useless right wing conspiracy film with conspiracy evidence, not any real evidence of voter fraud, have to do with anything?

Want to take that film to Court? 😃

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True the Vote attempted to corroborate its premise with surveillance video of drop boxes obtained from public sources, which the group contends provides visual proof of the conspiracy. But notably, none of the video footage used in the movie shows any individual depositing ballots at multiple drop boxes — a shortcoming D’Souza attributes to the fact that many jurisdictions did not capture surveillance video of drop boxes as required by law, or that in many cases the video was too grainy to definitively identify people.

We are, however, shown numerous surveillance videos of people placing multiple ballots into a drop box — which the film claims is direct evidence of crime. But in at least three cases so far, Georgia investigators say the video actually shows people legally dropping off ballots for eligible voters who are immediate family members living in their home.

In a Sept. 30, 2021, letter to True the Vote and the state Republican Party, D. Victor Reynolds, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said the data collected by the group — and provided to law enforcement officials — “while curious, does not rise to the level of probable cause that a crime has been committed.”

Update, Feb. 16, 2024: In July 2023, the State Election Board in Georgia sued True the Vote and eventually got a court order in November compelling the group to provide its evidence of a massive ballot-stuffing scheme, including the identity and contact information of people TTV claimed had knowledge of such a scheme.

In a December response first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Feb. 14, True the Vote failed to provide any information on those individuals. The group’s lawyers for True the Vote stated, “TTV does not have in its possession, custody, or control such identity and contact information.” Neither was True the Vote able to produce confidentiality agreements it had “previously said existed,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

“True the Vote made wild and false allegations as a fundraising grift that undermined public confidence in the integrity of Georgia’s elections,” Mike Hassinger, a spokesman for the Georgia secretary of state, told us via email. “Now that they’ve admitted to their con in court, they owe the voters of Georgia an apology.”

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2000 Mules is a 2022 American conspiracist[4][5][6] political film from right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza. The film falsely[7][8][9] claims unnamed nonprofit organizations supposedly associated with the Democratic Party paid "mules" to illegally collect and deposit ballots into drop boxes in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin during the 2020 presidential election. D'Souza has a history of creating and spreading false conspiracy theories.[10]

The Associated Press (AP) reported that the film relies on "faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data" provided by conservative[11] non-profit True the Vote.[7]

FactCheck.org found the film's "supposed evidence is speculative."[12] National Public Radio (NPR) reported True the Vote "made multiple misleading or false claims about its [own] work".[13] AP reported that the assertion that True the Vote identified 1,155 paid mules in Philadelphia alone was false.

The film presented a single unverified anonymous witness who said she saw people picking up what she "assumed" were payments for ballot collection in Arizona; no evidence of such payments was presented in any of the other four states.[7] The film characterizes the alleged operation as "ballot trafficking" with "stash houses", but presents no evidence that ballots were illegally collected to be deposited in drop boxes.[7][14][15][16]

A companion book was set to be released in early September 2022 but was abruptly recalled amidst legal threats and edited for release late in October.[5]

The editorial board of the New York Post, a conservative tabloid that endorsed Trump in 2020, published an editorial on June 10, 2022 stating Trump "clings to more fantastical theories, such as Dinesh D'Souza's debunked '2,000 Mules,' even as recounts in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin confirm Trump lost."[50]

Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general during the 2020 election, announced on December 1, 2020, that the Justice Department and FBI had investigated allegations of election fraud but found nothing significant.[51] In June 2022 testimony to the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, Barr laughed at the mention of 2000 Mules, and when asked to assess it, dismissed its assertions there had been widespread election fraud,[52] calling the movie "indefensible".[53]

Three screenings were held during the Republican Party of Texas' June 2022 convention, which saw attendees approve a resolution falsely describing Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election as illegitimate.[56][57][58]

In October 2022, Atlanta citizen Mark Andrews sued Dinesh D'Souza, True the Vote, Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht for defamation, conspiracy, and intrusion on seclusion.[60] The film accused him of being a "mule" who illegally harvested ballots as part of a fraud ring. Although the film had blurred his face, the film's trailer and promotional stills used his image.[61] A state investigation found that Andrews was legally dropping off ballots for himself, his wife, and their three adult children, who all lived at the same address. [62]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Mules

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2000 Fools is a Mess