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‘2000 Mules’: Election Drop Boxes, ‘Geofencing,’ and ‘The Big Lie’
“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Joe Biden
Those were the exact words from a grainy clip of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden that opens a new movie by conservative author, pundit, and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, ‘“2000 Mules.” It was seen as just another gaffe by a candidate with a long history of malapropisms.
Salem Media Group and True the Vote (TTV) produced the movie. D’Souza relies on research from TTV’s President, Catherine Englebrecht, and TTV board member Gregg Phillips, a former state health official in Texas and Mississippi. Phillips also is a data analyst and the founder of several technology-related firms. He claims in the movie to have been “in and around” election integrity and analysis for 40 years.
Phillips is no stranger to controversy. He was the source of claims made by President Trump in 2017, never confirmed, that 3 million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election. Mainstream media has worked overtime to discredit him and TTV, including a major investor’s claim that he was duped and other unsubstantiated claims. Yet, Phillips and TTV persist.
D’Souza, who launched a podcast in 2021 on the Salem platform, sets the stage with clips from three Republicans – former Attorney General Bill Barr (“Fraud did not play a role in the outcome of the election”), US Sen. Mike Rounds (“the election was fair”), and of course, US Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY). He touches on “J6” at the US Capitol, claiming it “wasn’t an insurrection. It was a primal scream. They wanted their elected leaders to adjudicate the claims of election fraud.”
“We can’t ‘move on’ until we know the truth,” D’Souza continues. “Is it a ‘big lie?’ It is a lie at all?”
D’Souza also relies on a panel of Salem radio talk show and podcast hosts, including Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Larry Elder, Charlie Kirk, and former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka. Most express reservations about election fraud claims in the first interviews.
By the end of the movie, they’re aghast. You may be, too. One of the retorts we often hear concerning claims of vote fraud is the phrase “without evidence.” Except that D’Souza, Englebrecht, and Phillips provide actual official footage of crimes committed by “mules” in the form of drop-box stuffing of ballots, often during the dark of night. Most states, including Pennsylvania – a particular focus of illegal election activity in the movie – prohibit voters from casting more than one ballot, their own, at drop boxes.
Drop boxes – many of them privately funded via $400 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg through the left-wing Center for Tech and Civic Life – were a unique feature of the pandemic-scarred 2020 election. Most were placed in Democratic-leaning counties and jurisdictions.
Interestingly, as The Federalist reported, “Facebook has banned Trump from its platform and has delisted individuals — many of them conservatives — for espousing views about the election that it insists are “misinformation.”
Credit D’Souza for asking all the right questions throughout the movie. Let’s take one of the first: if Biden was so successful, why did Democrats lose so many down-ballot races for US House and other races? After all, a newly-elected President usually has coattails and sees increases in his party’s hold on Congress.
House Republicans gained 14 seats in 2020. In fairness, much of that is a rebound from the 2018 election when the GOP lost 40 seats. But, still, it is an anomaly for a new President to lose seats.
Pennsylvania is a better example. Biden “won” the state with 3.46 million votes and a margin of about 80,000 with 6.915 million votes cast. On election night, Trump led by nearly 800,000 votes before mail votes were counted. There were three other statewide elections for Attorney General, Treasurer, and Auditor General. Democrats held all, and other than Auditor General, a popular Democratic incumbent was on the ballot.
While Attorney General and 2022 Democratic gubernatorial nominee presumptive Josh Shapiro narrowly won reelection, the total ballots cast for Attorney General were over 110,000 fewer than for President.
Republican challengers Stacey Garritty (Treasurer) and Tim DeFoer (Auditor-General) won the other two races for the first time in several years. The ballot drop-off in those elections was nearly 150,000.
There are two explanations. First, a drop-off in ballots cast for down-ballot races is not uncommon, although 109,000 seems high. Second, in Act 77, the Pennsylvania legislature eliminated a ballot box for straight-party voting in 2020. If you are committing fraud by producing as many ballots as possible and only have time to mark one box, it will be for the top of the ballot – the presidency. Thus, the drop-off.
Phillips explained how TTV’s research worked. They obtained some 10 trillion cell phone “signals” using a petabyte of data. They narrowed their research to focus on “signals” that visited ten or more election drop boxes and five or more visits to “nonprofit” organizations that have collected ballots, starting in Georgia. They expanded their research to include Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.
Remember, most state laws, including Pennsylvania, restrict the number of ballots (one) that any single voter can cast at a dropbox. Ballot harvesting – collecting and delivering ballots on behalf of voters – is illegal in most states. While most states have provisions to allow others to deliver ballots on their behalf, it is highly restricted.
A “mule” is a person who picks up ballots from an organization – “stash houses” – and delivers them to a series of drop boxes. According to Engelbrecht’s sources, mules are typically paid about $10 per ballot. They often take selfies of them depositing ballots to ensure payment. “In the Georgia (US Senate runoff, January 5, 2021), that payment was higher.”
Dozens of mules who participated in violent Antifa-BLM riots in Atlanta were also mules in the 2020 election, reports Phillips. Over 240 mules were identified in Atlanta. Some mules, especially in Michigan, visited about 100 dropboxes.
There were 1,100 mules identified in Philadelphia – many of driving back and forth across bridges from New Jersey – visiting as many as 50 drop boxes each. And TTV has 4 million minutes of surveillance video from across the country to help prove their case, obtained through open records requests. Except Wisconsin has no video, even though it was required under state law. Other jurisdictions, such as Arizona, turned off some footage. But where they do, TTV has the geospatial data to support the video.
Here is an Atlanta “mule” depositing – and dropping – ballots he’s stuffing into a dropbox during the night.
At one Gwinnett County, Georgia, 271 voters were videotaped dropping ballots at a drop box. Over 1,962 ballots were deposited, according to official “chain of custody” documents.
“This is organized crime,” Phillips asserts. With evidence. It appears even to violate federal racketeering laws (RICO).
And this is only from the first half of the movie. Watch the rest. You can access it here.
What will be done about this, given that Republican candidates are punished for making election fraud a top issue? Worse, can we expect the Biden Administration’s Justice Department to do anything?
The good news is that some jurisdictions are taking action, including either eliminating dropboxes or increasing surveillance. Some eighteen state laws have been changed to prevent “Zuckbucks” from privately subsidizing official elections, including Georgia. As for geofencing, a tool used chiefly by advertisers and law enforcement agencies, it is proving to be a valuable tool in elections. Including exposing fraudulent activity.
D’Souza then asks the $64,000 question – was the scope of election fraud big enough to tip the balance in the 2020 election. He says yes, especially in Georgia, Arizona, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The combined electoral votes from those three states were enough to put Biden over the top.
D’Souza leaves many questions unanswered. He does not disclose the names of “nonprofits” who acted as “stash houses” for mules to pick up and deposit multiple ballots. Where and how did these stash houses collect ballots? Where did the money come from to subsidize this effort? Will TTV provide this data to law enforcement authorities? Nowhere in America is it legal for nonprofit organizations to collect ballots and pay mules to deliver them, D’Souza asserts. Some 2000 mules visited 38 dropboxes each to deposit nearly 400,000 illegally-cast votes.
Associated Press attempted to “fact check” the movie. AP claims falsely that the film is based on a flawed analysis of geofenced data. They claim it isn’t precise, but that is laughably false. Drive up to any gasoline retailer who uses geospatial data to spot your presence at their pumps to text you with special deals. It has happened to me. Further, Phillips cited an instance where their geospatial data helped identify an alleged killer in Atlanta at the precise location where the murder occurred. The alleged killer has been arrested.
Election fraud is hard to prove. It takes time, money, and much effort, much more than was available between the November 2020 election and swearing-in day just 10 weeks later. There are unanswered questions. But eventually, the truth comes out. Like it or not, D’Souza has upped the anty on election integrity for the 2022 election. Local and state officials had better be prepared to respond.
Joe Biden might have been correct. Democrats and their allies may have created the largest and most inclusive voter fraud organization in American political history. Will we ever know with certainty?
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Are you saying that they stole the elections in Virginia?
I don’t have to explain it. It happened. I’ve been saying that any election can now be fixed, but that important, or pivotal, or “swing” elections will necessarily be fixed.
I’d love to be wrong in my prognostication. I look forward to the day that you call me on it.
Theory 1: They control the elections, and sometimes they let us win.
Theory 2: They don’t control the elections, and democracy in America works pretty well.
Theory 1.5: There’s more cheating than we used to know, but it’s not 100%, and sometimes cheating isn’t very thorough, and sometimes we can outvote the cheaters.
This is where I am. I’m no longer taking it for granted that blacks are automatic and guaranteed D voters except through fraud.
FIFY
You can’t overlook the element of surprise. Hubris is still a major weak point for the Ds. They get too cocksure of their hegemony and get lax. Hillary would have investigated the 2016 election if she hadn’t engaged in fraud. But the polling was so shoddy everywhere over that election (the unlikely voters showed up in droves) that they didn’t plan enough. 2020 was almost a loss, too.
I think the R sweep of VA can be best explained by them thinking they had a lock on NOVA and underestimating the anger over the rapes and CRT in their “locked down” counties. They take for granted the Nova capture are NIMBY types.
The day of reckoning is only six months away. The mid-term elections are going to be revealing. If what the promoters of democrat election fraud say is correct, then Republicans will not take back the House and the Senate. It will be a cataclysmic reversal of what all the pundits, even democrat pundits, are predicting.
Except that all of the polling had Republican Glen Youngkin leading Terry McAuliffe in the last week before the election. Democrats saw what was happening ahead of time.
Wrong. Republicans will win, big. Many of them are going to benefit from the fraudulent voting systems. One of those is Kelly Tshbaka who will replace Lisa Murkowski in the Senate. Clueless R pundits will cheer, even Steve Bannon (maybe even Trump)…until a few months or years down the line when people begin to realize she a Harvard trained, D. C. groomed, deep state plant who will slip right into the establishment pocket. People don’t do their homework to find out who these people truly are. All they see is an R next to the name and assume they value liberty. How did that measurement work out during the Gestapo lockdowns?
The fraudulent election system places Republicans in office just as often as Democrats.
In “Keeping Track of Election Fraud Allegations” (off-Ricochet link here), I have a new chapter analyzing various claims surrounding 2,000 Mules:
Chapter 16: True the Vote
Looks like pretty good evidence to me.
So you are saying that Republicans cheat just as much as Democrats. Interesting. I haven’t heard that from anybody on Ricochet before. And you want to keep Murkowski?!
I don’t know the extent of the “deep state plants,” but I do know, living in a (formerly) deep red city/county that single-party rule leads to liars claiming to be of the ruling party so as to get elected and then pushing the opposite agenda. I even heard it from a local reporter once at a party when she thought she was in safe company. She knew the candidate in question and her real positions and thought it was funny that she passed herself off as a Republican. This is why I say the Left doesn’t value truth. It’s all ends justify the means all the time.
“Deep state plant” sounds like a top down cabal, but I think it’s actually just hard to find honest politicians of either party who will tell you what they really believe instead of what they think you want to hear. Donald Trump was refreshing that way, even when I disagreed with him (which turned out to be not very often).
BTW, that same reporter denied that the news media is leftward biased. Progs are conditioned to live with cognitive dissonance.
Down the stretch, the Dems campaigned on “shut up parents! We’ll decide if your school age daughters are raped or not.” That turned out to be a poor strategy and a bad followup to the “after your baby is born, we’ll have a conversation about killing it”.
But that negates the whole stealing of election theme.
It’s not a matter of everyone cheating, it’s a matter of those who program the machines deciding who to allow into office and who not to, including judges and local assembly members. If you’ve watched any of the documentation you’ll know that hacking an election that uses machines is ridiculously easy. A single person can do it literally in a few minutes with a cell phone. It’s been proven over and over again.
I suspect plenty of candidates are dumb as rocks and are allowed to get elected fairly and with good intentions only to get bought or blackmailed into doing the bidding of more powerful people once there. I suspect others (World Economic Forum graduates, for example) are groomed and selected for the position and ensured via simple machine manipulation into narrow victories. They’re the true believers. Political jihadists if you will. And I believe a very very few are in on it (Hillary types). Most (including Biden) have no clue and think people actually like them.
We like to think that these people are smarter than you or I. The truth is that politics attracts some of the worst, dumbest, most easily manipulated people out there.
No, I don’t support Murkowski. She’s a disgrace and I’ll never vote for her. But I’ve done enough homework to know Tshbaka is probably going to be just as bad if not worse because she’s so much smarter than Lisa, and she’s a great liar.
Republicans have to get well past the margin of victory. I suspect in Virginia, Republicans managed to make it past the margin of fraud as well.
This is a time-tested truth.
To achieve elected office, you don’t have to be smart or rich. You just have to have powerful backers. And those backers prefer a dumb, easily-manipulated tool who is attracted to fame and money, and therefore can be . . . pressed into service more readily.
And this is perfectly consistent with Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Ilhan Omar, et al.
No other explanation comes close.
Seven pages worth. But you still haven’t seen the movie?
Ilhan Omar is not stupid; she is evil. The other two are stupid.
I don’t know about that. Youngkin won the Governor’s race by a margin of 1.9% of the vote. Real Clear Politics poll averages had him ahead by nearly exactly that amount overall – 1.7% which is less than Younkin’s margin of victory.
https://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2021%20November%20General/Site/Statewide.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2021/governor/va/virginia_governor_youngkin_vs_mcauliffe-7373.html#!
Is this guy crazy?
Seems like it would be a good idea to “revert to draft” then edit or add new stuff, and re-publish to make it more visible.
They let Youngkin get elected because while he’s against CRT, he’s pro vaccine and can clearly be manipulated into idiotic positions. The deep state has its priorities, allegiance to big Pharma and globalist corporations is at the top of the list. Those are the types of new candidates who are allowed to hold office.
I’m so glad the election officials and/or voting fraudsters allowed Youngkin, the Attorney General, the Lieutenant Governor, and the State House to win. Perhaps they are on our side after all. I guess we have to reconsider this whole election cheating thing in a new light.
By the way, the fact that Governor Youngkin got rid of mask and vaccine mandates at the state level might convince the election officials/voting fraudsters who put him into office, to reconsider their positions as well. The whole thing is very complicated.
2000 Mules and Rigged complete convince me that the election was rigged and stolen.
Indeed.
And really… 81 million votes? That is totally absurd.
Nobody has ever offered a possible explanation for that number.
Seven months and still waiting on that audit of the machines they promised.
The 81 million votes did seem absurd to me until I ran some numbers on how much of an increase it actually was. I’m too busy right now to re-do the calculations, but after adjusting for population increase I calculated that Biden only received about an extra 1% of the eligible American vote more than Obama did in 2008. Given that many Americans had been sitting home from their jobs for the previous year and spent more time surfing the Internet and reading about politics, I don’t find the 81 million votes to be much of an outlier. If I remember correctly, I found that the percentage of votes that Biden got was far less than many winning Presidential candidates received in the past, even in the 20th century. That’s because for the most part, most modern Americans don’t vote and only about half of those eligible vote in presidential elections.