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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: Jayster

I can hardly believe this practice is condoned in any state. The whole chain of voting relies on the voter being witnessed by poll employees dropping their own ballot into the box.


41 posted on 05/05/2022 11:21:29 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Jayster

Sue mercury and fund the next film


42 posted on 05/05/2022 11:22:10 AM PDT by daku
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To: Jayster
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.

And the reasons that someone might drop off multiple ballots dozens and dozens of times, stopping at the NGO vote factory in between...

43 posted on 05/05/2022 11:55:02 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Jayster

Notice how this airhead SWENSON brushes off all the evidence of election fraud while at the same time believing everything about Russia, Russia, Russia.

Oh, and the Hunter Laptop story is Russian disinformation too. Fifty two government experts have signed a document to attest to this.

See how easy this is? When your a “journalist” for the Mercury News all you have to do is print an article.


44 posted on 05/05/2022 11:59:26 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Jayster

Wow. Some was dropping off for 1500 family members. Must be a huge house..


45 posted on 05/05/2022 12:12:15 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: Flavious_Maximus
See how easy this is? When your a “journalist” for the Mercury News all you have to do is print an article.

I would be willing to bet there's software for "writing" a "fact-check" article.

Plug in the subject, run the app, then clean it up a little.

Half an hour, tops.

46 posted on 05/05/2022 12:16:01 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: cableguymn

Well, you don’t have to advertise it. All those ballots ended up in the drop box - how did they get there? Who knows?
That’s why this method is so effective. They’re all legal ballots, properly signed by genuine voters. You go back to the voter, ask if this is your ballot and your signature, they’ll say yes, and that nice young fellow helped me fill out my ballot and dropped it off for me. No, he didn’t give is full name.


47 posted on 05/05/2022 12:59:39 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user
If it’s legal for the libs, it’s legal for us.

Where the hell did you get such a stupid idea as that?

48 posted on 05/05/2022 1:19:13 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

Well, some enterprising fellows in California did it, and the court ruled in their favor.


49 posted on 05/05/2022 1:40:42 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Jayster

These SOBs could not ‘fact check’ their way out of a wet paperbag.....


50 posted on 05/05/2022 1:49:46 PM PDT by cranked
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To: DAC21

She looks like a mule and her name is Sal.


51 posted on 05/05/2022 2:13:12 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Jayster

Was that faulty video on those government cameras of mule after mule stuffing dozens of ballots into unattended drop boxes in the middle of the night? Who ya gonna believe, us or your lyin’ eyes?


52 posted on 05/05/2022 3:32:15 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: mastertex

I think it will be streaming later this month.


53 posted on 05/05/2022 4:32:22 PM PDT by ALASKA (w)
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To: Jayster

You have to see the film to understand how they did it. They tracked the mules through their cell phones. They can’t use this information to arrest people, however; it just shows clearly how it was done.

I believe a large part of the steal was the votes coming in through the computers.

These two things, plus a few others, determined the result.

Someone needs to do another film about the computer fraud.


54 posted on 05/05/2022 5:11:23 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Jayster

They call it “fact checking” when they just want to deny something. The term fact checking is Obama double speak. A lot of their fact checking is just bullshit.


55 posted on 05/05/2022 9:18:13 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: TakebackGOP

No comments at the site I went to.


56 posted on 05/06/2022 4:32:49 PM PDT by Tymesup
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To: Jayster

It is on video including them taking selfies and in some cases wearing gloves - what would be the purpose of that?

You have countless thousands if not millions of ballots printed and mailed out with zero chain of custody tracking that were not requested by the voters. That’s not how you conduct a fair and accurate election. Period.

This “analysis” is not an analysis at all.


57 posted on 05/06/2022 7:54:34 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Jayster

Here come the Fact Wreckers, sent by the Government Disinformation Bureau.


58 posted on 05/06/2022 7:56:36 PM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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