{"id":1470334,"date":"2022-05-10T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470334"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:00:53","slug":"2000-mules-offers-bold-claims-about-the-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2000-mules-offers-bold-claims-about-the-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20182000 Mules\u2019 Offers Bold Claims About the 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2000-mules-offers-bold-claims-about-the-2020-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470334&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h5>Daniel Baldwin, OAN Political Correspondent \u2014 Washington DC<br \/>UPDATED 10:44 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, May 10, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>The new film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/2000mules.com\/\">2000 Mules<\/a>\u201d, directed by conservative commentator Dinesh D\u2019Souza, offers a closer examination of the 2020 Election. Buoyed by True the Vote\u2019s research, D\u2019Souza posits that 2000 mules, people who collect and return mail-in ballots, were paid to stuff dropboxes across five primary swing states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truethevote.org\/about\/\">True the Vote<\/a>, a nonprofit organization based in Texas, offers up evidence based on combining $2 million worth of anonymized cell phone geolocation data with four million minutes of government surveillance video obtained via a public records request. The group drew a virtual boundary around dropboxes and nongovernment organizations in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Georgia. Doing so helped True the Vote identify unique cell phones that repeatedly visited dropbox locations and NGOs ahead of the 2020 Election.<\/p>\n<p>True the Vote founder Catherine Englebrecht and election intelligence investigator Gregg Phillips walk D\u2019Souza through their findings during the film. If a cellphone \u201cpinged\u201d near a dropbox more than 10 times and an NGO more than five times from Oct. 1 to Election Day, True the Vote classified the cellphone owner as a mule.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this classification, the group asserted 380,000 fraudulent votes were cast in the 2020 Election. True the Vote\u2019s data claims illegal ballot trafficking materially swung Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania all for President Joe Biden. Without these votes, True the Vote claims former President Donald Trump would have claimed 279 electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2022\/05\/08\/2000-mules-fact-check\/\">fact checkers<\/a> have pointed out that the film only offers evidence of payment from one unidentified whistleblower in Arizona. Critics say \u201c2000 Mules\u201d lacks any substantial evidence for illegal payments occurring in the other four states. Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2022\/may\/04\/faulty-premise-2000-mules-trailer-about-voting-mai\/\">Politifact<\/a> argues geospatial data from cell phones does not offer the precision necessary to confirm that a person submitted a ballot to a dropbox. The fact-checking website <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-covid-technology-health-arizona-e1b49d2311bf900f44fa5c6dac406762\">asserts<\/a> this data only shows that a person came within a short distance of the dropbox. The Department of Homeland Security has called the 2020 Election \u201cthe most secure in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2719655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2719655\" class=\"wp-image-2719655 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ballot.jpeg\" alt=\"A person drops off a mail-in ballot at an election ballot return box in Willow Grove, Pa., Oct. 25, 2021. On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, The Associated Press reported on a film that used a flawed analysis of cellphone location data and ballot drop box surveillance footage to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ballot.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ballot-315x210-1.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ballot-656x437-1.jpeg 656w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ballot-768x512-1.jpeg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2719655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person drops off a mail-in ballot at an election ballot return box in Willow Grove, Pa., Oct. 25, 2021. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Baldwin, OAN Political Correspondent \u2014 Washington DCUPDATED 10:44 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, May 10, 2022 The new film \u201c2000 Mules\u201d, directed by conservative commentator Dinesh D\u2019Souza, offers a closer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}