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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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PART 2
After 1960 there followed a decline to the bottom during the 1980’s and 90’s followed by an upswing of interest in voting in the 21st Century that has caught back up to the levels of the 1960 election. I attribute this to the invention of the 24/7 news cycle which dwells heavily on politics, even when the news subject should not be political.
The next chart shows the voter turnout by year along with an important factor – the Voting Age Population since 1932, and more specifically the Voter Eligible Population since 1980. “Voter Eligible Population” is more accurate because it takes into account that incarcerated prisoners and many paroled felons are not eligible to vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections
Next I plotted the percentage of votes received by each of the popular vote winners as a percentage of the total eligible electorate.
You’ll notice a few things. First of all, Biden is not the highest percentage vote getter. He just benefitted by a much higher than average turnout that made his victory appear much larger. Ronald Reagan got nearly the same percentage of the electorate vote as Biden despite the fact that nearly 10% more of the electorate stayed at home and didn’t vote in 1984. Nixon also eclipsed Biden in 1972 despite having a turnout 7% lower. LBJ blew by everybody with his crushing win over Goldwater. In the 1960 race, which had turnout almost exactly like 2020, Kennedy and Nixon had nearly equal numbers of popular votes and both were within two percentage points of Joe Brandon’s win.
Lastly, there is only a 1.38% difference between Obama’s “messianic” victory in 2008 and Biden’s “messy panic” victory in 2020. But Biden and Trump had 5% more people show up at the polls to carry him past Obama. You could easily argue that Obama received a higher percentage of those who actually voted, which indeed is what happened. In fact four others, H. W. Bush, Reagan, Nixon, and Johnson all had higher percentage popular vote wins than Biden, and Clinton could have too if not for Ross Perot’s 3rd party challenge twice. Remember, Biden only received 51.3% of the popular vote (of those who showed up).
If you are interested, Donald Trump received 27.27% of the total electorate vote in 2016, and 31.02% in 2020.
CONTINUED
PART 3
All of you will agree that Donald Trump received the most negative press of any President in history, no? Then the question arises “Why don’t you believe this negative press had any effect whatsoever on voters? It is not hard to believe that the press could convince just one more person out of every 72 Americans to vote for Biden in 2020 than voted for Obama in 2008. In fact it is remarkable that this shift in voting was so tiny. I don’t remember the name of the pundit who theorized that every democrat politician has an automatic 15 point lead going into an election due to left-leaning press coverage. I think it’s true, though not as much as it used to be now that the main stream press has lost a lot of its viewership.
It didn’t matter that Biden sat in his basement sucking his thumb. The whole thing was about Trump. It is fairly well-known that it is easier to motivate voters to the polls with negative coverage of your opponent than with positive coverage of yourself. The 2018 mid-terms bear that out since voter turnout was unusually high during that off-year. I suspect the reason American voter turnout is generally so low compared to other countries is that Americans are more happy with their leaders than even the most peaceful democracies. If you think Joe Brandon’s approval rating is ridiculously low at 41%, you ain’t seen nothin’. Boris Johnson currently sits at 29% approval in the U.K. Even the supposedly happy Canadians don’t like their leaders very much. Since 1960 they’ve had four Prime Ministers with approval ratings at 25% or less, bottoming out with Brian Mulroney in the toilet at 12%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Canada_by_approval_rating
Voter registration is another indicator that things were different in the 2020 and 2018 elections. Check out this graph:
Voter registration always falls off a little in mid-term years and picks back up during presidential election years, but you can see that it didn’t fall much in 2018 and then it surged in 2020 by 15 miillion more voters. I have no doubt that the hatred for Trump drove this, combined with the Corona Virus panic that left millions home alone with the tempting activities of watching TV and Internet surfing. Counter-intuitively, sports watching on TV dwindled significantly.
So yes, Biden won the most number of votes for a presidential election ever, and Trump won the most number of Republican votes ever, but neither of them received the largest percentage of votes in our history or even close to it. That distinction probably belongs to James Garfield or William McKinley who each received a little more than 40% of the electorate’s vote.
There was likely cheating, but the high vote totals is not evidence for it in my opinion.
Popular Vote Wiener?
I couldn’t help myself!
No, he didn’t. Your entire analysis is based on the assumption that Bidens voters actually exist. They don’t. Canvassing and auditing of the voter roles has proven this. The fraudsters kept Biden in normal percentages based off of inflated votes from bloated inaccurate roles.
In other words he got a greater percentage of voters who don’t exist.
Between 2016 and 2020, the US population grew by about 2.8%, and the claimed US presidential votes between 2020 and 2016 grew by 21%.
An order of magnitude difference.
As my old man used to say. Figures lie and liars figure…..
Since he was a consummate liar, I figure he knew what he was talking about.
And Democrat registrations trended down all throughout that time.
Yes, I was wondering where he got the raw numbers for voter registrations. Including when the rolls were most recently reconciled and purged, and who did the overall collating.
As a reminder:
That’s because the 2016 election was a dud by comparison. A smaller percentage showed up to the polls than two out of the three previous presidential elections, and Hilary’s popular vote percentage was lower than all three previous winners. The real question should be “Why did Hillary get four-million votes fewer than Obama did eight years previously when the U.S. electorate was 8% smaller?” Both candidates in 2016 were highly unpopular with their own parties and many people stayed home rather than vote, or voted 3rd party. The electorate was highly motivated in 2018 and 2020 and they still are. Expect similar numbers if not higher in the 2022 mid-terms.
If the freakish vote total is consistent with cheating, then it is evidence in favor of. You can say it is weak evidence, but it is still evidence.
Your theories are so far out there that they negate discussing any data or results on elections at all. The voting machines are all pre-programmed with pre-determined results and both parties cheat so much that the official results are only posted to fool the masses into thinking that an actual election has taken place. I would conclude that nobody should bother voting at all, it is just a pretend game.
I don’t have theories on election data, I have conclusions and evidence based on years of investigations, evidence and investigations you’ve refused to examine. Have you even watched 2000 Mules yet, the evidence this post is about?
What state are you in? Maybe I can put you in touch with the people in your state who’ve been canvassing and auditing your voter roles. Maybe they can convince you that the single room apartments that they’ve found with 30 registered voters, the ones they knocked on the doors of, don’t exist, and that yours and HuffPo’s numbers and arguments are a fantasy.
As a reminder:
Maybe because she’s not (half-)black?
Y’know, I’m beginning to think that there’s more photographic evidence of election fraud than there is of actual Biden voters.
Sure does seem like it.
And the mules are probably proud of their actions, actual Biden voters seem to wear grocery bags on their heads.
Especially now.
“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
“I don’t need you to get me elected”
“Who gets to count the vote, count the vote, count the vote!”
Yup. Amazing, isn’t it?
Count the vote, don’t take the vote over!
Count the vote, you know you can’t lose!
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. There are only 31 States that have registered party affiliation. I couldn’t find a comprehensive statistic that combines all their numbers of trends in party affiliation by registered voters, but I did manage to find this about four key battleground States, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Not only was democrat voter registration increasing from 2016 – 2020, but it was outpacing the new republican voter registrations as well.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/514480-democrats-lead-republicans-in-new-voter-registrations-in-four-battleground/
Okay, then the question becomes, how many of those registrations were fraudulent? (Often a fraudulent vote on election day wouldn’t be counted without a previous fraudulent registration.) When I lived in Arizona, at every election there were barely-if-at-all-covered stories of registration confirmations being returned as “no such address” etc, yet because the state had no official mechanism for following up, and no legal requirement to do so, they apparently felt free to claim there were no problems.
The guy who ostensibly won the election is saying he’s going to pressure state legislatures (Constitutional hint: it’s not his job!) to make sure “who gets to count the vote!” And it’s about “election subversion.”
You bet your sweet bippy it is.
This is the site. I forgot to credit them in my comment.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273743/number-of-registered-voters-in-the-united-states/
Full story at TGP:
So many states have very dirty registration rolls, in a way all the numbers show is how many fraudulent votes could be cast if someone wanted to.
How was it freakish? I demonstrated that Biden’s vote totals were commensurate with or lower than several other candidates since 1960 despite the fact that we are now in an era of renewed voter participation.