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Fact-checking ‘2000 Mules,’ the movie alleging ballot fraud(Barf Alert)
The Mercury News ^ | May 5, 2022 | ALI SWENSON

Posted on 05/05/2022 10:14:01 AM PDT by Jayster

A film opening in hundreds of theaters across the United States this week uses a flawed analysis of cellphone location data and ballot drop box surveillance footage to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election nearly 18 months after it ended.

Praised by former President Donald Trump as exposing “great election fraud,” the movie, called “2000 Mules,” paints an ominous picture suggesting Democrat-aligned ballot “mules” were supposedly paid to illegally collect and drop off ballots in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

But that’s based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data, which is not precise enough to confirm that somebody deposited a ballot into a drop box, according to experts.

The movie was produced by conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza and uses research from the Texas-based nonprofit True the Vote, which has spent months lobbying states to use its findings to change voting laws. Neither responded to a request for comment.

Here’s a closer look at the facts.

CLAIM: At least 2,000 “mules” were paid to illegally collect ballots and deliver them to drop boxes in key swing states ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

THE FACTS: True the Vote didn’t prove this. The finding is based on false assumptions about the precision of cellphone tracking data and the reasons that someone might drop off multiple ballots, according to experts.

“Ballot harvesting” is a pejorative term for dropping off completed ballots for people besides yourself. The practice is legal in several states but largely illegal in the states True the Vote focused on, with some exceptions for family, household members and people with disabilities.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2000mules; aliswenson; cantproveididit; didntdoit; didntseemedoit; election; fakefactcheck; playthefactcheckcard; ropetreeali; someassemblyrequired
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

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Young far-left ‘fact-checker’ Ali Swenson uses Maricopa County to harass and tarnish TGP factual reporting. By choosing to use Maricopa County as her source of truth, she shows immaturity, incompetence, and bias and gets caught in a major mistake. Ali Swenson is a young, no doubt far-left journalist, manicured in an Ivy League school. ...


21 posted on 05/05/2022 10:27:35 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Jayster

...which is not precise enough to confirm that somebody deposited a ballot into a drop box...
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But cell phone tracking IS precise enough to put a suspect at the scene of a murder???

How many people went to prison because cell tower tracking exposed their shenanigans? Answer: Plenty. Just watch crime documentaries.


22 posted on 05/05/2022 10:32:49 AM PDT by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training, along with CRT are all un-walled reeducation camps....for now.)
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To: Jayster

The fact checker is a liar. This movie show irrefutable evidence of the coup. The geo sat data confirmed with video from the state agencies that set up the drop boxes are proof. I repeat, the fact checker is a liar.


23 posted on 05/05/2022 10:36:04 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: mastertex

Someone posted this, this morning; other suggestions are in the same thread:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4060588/posts?page=57#57


24 posted on 05/05/2022 10:36:28 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jayster

Their expert is a Wisconsin professor.


25 posted on 05/05/2022 10:38:16 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Jayster
How They Did It — True The Vote's Catherine Engelbrecht And Gregg Phillips On The Charlie Kirk Show

One hour interview of Catherine Engelbrecht And Gregg Phillips

I caught a 2 minute clip on twitter so I went looking for the entire thing - https://www.bitchute.com/video/yAPuLhZx54HW/

True The Vote news - https://www.truethevote.org/news/

26 posted on 05/05/2022 10:39:26 AM PDT by Pollard (Don't ask if there's a conspiracy. If you're not in one, you need to start one. CA Fitts)
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To: struggle

Yes, this “fact checker” is yet another leftist fraud.


27 posted on 05/05/2022 10:39:35 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: proxy_user

awwww you still think we only have one legal system.


28 posted on 05/05/2022 10:39:51 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Jayster

And she never got out from behind her keyboard to check anything out. Just a little free-lance AP leftist doing her part....


29 posted on 05/05/2022 10:42:07 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Jayster

Saying “uses a flawed analysis” is conclusory. Not evidentiary.


30 posted on 05/05/2022 10:50:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: z3n

fact “checking” is not fact “proving”

I can do a brake check but that doesn’t mean they will work.

Indeed, as has been amply demonstrated by our low IQ journalism major media.


31 posted on 05/05/2022 10:54:24 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: KC_Conspirator
Actually she spoke the truth in this statement:

“The practice is legal in several states but largely illegal in the states True the Vote focused on”

The practice is ballot harvesting. It is legal in some states like California. It is illegal in MI, WI, AZ, GA and PA.
So, doing what these mules did was a crime. What they did was illegal.

The only way this will stop is to arrest the mules and charge them. Get them to flip on the Dem operatives that hired them. Prosecute them and put them in jail.

This was a coordinated effort across several states. Hence, the coordination of vote counting stoppage at 11pm on election night. That is racketeering. RICO laws were violated. US Federal district attorneys should be charging them. However, there are no Rudy Giuliani’s around anymore.

32 posted on 05/05/2022 10:55:34 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Jayster

The media ALWAYS lies.


33 posted on 05/05/2022 10:57:38 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Jayster

I tried to see 2000 Mules. The theater was SOLD OUT!


34 posted on 05/05/2022 10:58:05 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Saints are sinners who never gave up. --St. Theresa of Avila)
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To: Jayster

That’s their modus operandi. Look how they went after Trump. Look how they’re going after Cawthorne; he must scare hell out of ‘em!


35 posted on 05/05/2022 11:01:43 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Saints are sinners who never gave up. --St. Theresa of Avila)
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To: Jayster

If they were just dropping off batches of ballots because they were civic minded patriots, it would still be illegal in the jurisdictions involved. They also wouldn’t have taken pictures of the stacks of ballots they were stuffing so they could get paid.

Even with obvious evidence these ghouls still think people are suckers and will accept this gross fraud.


36 posted on 05/05/2022 11:05:00 AM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: Jayster

Well….there is no ironclad evidence that Covid-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, either. Yet still…


37 posted on 05/05/2022 11:09:44 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: woodbutcher1963

Ballot ‘harvesting’ in the sense of registered voters giving permission for third party handling of their ballot is legal (or at least was before the SCOTUS ruling?). No change in state law in any of these jurisdictions made organized crime/ballot trafficking legal.


38 posted on 05/05/2022 11:14:44 AM PDT by erlayman
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To: Jayster

“But that’s based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data, which is not precise enough to confirm that somebody deposited a ballot into a drop box, according to...”

You know there were talking points sent out.


39 posted on 05/05/2022 11:18:37 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Jayster

CAN SOMEONE post this radio interview with dsouza on kdka? Thank you

https://www.audacy.com/kdkaradio/news/local/kevin-battle-goes-one-on-one-with-dinesh-dsouza


40 posted on 05/05/2022 11:19:49 AM PDT by jdirt
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