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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's Marjorie Greene endorsing "2000 Mules"
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That's right - a sitting member of Congress is on far right social media actively endorsing a far right propaganda flick attempting to discredit the 2020 election that's probably going to get people killed. Dinesh is treading into some very dangerous territory here. This is truly "awful everything".
keep_left
(2,104 posts)...along with NewsMax, OANN, Fox, et al? I know the premise behind this POS is alleged/invented ballot shenanigans, but there's no way D'Souza can resist getting in a few attacks on the voting machine companies as well. At the very least, he's going to be sued by numerous state Democratic party groups. The lawyers must be thrilled to get a crack at a case this easy. D'Souza is gonna be lucky to not end up in jail again. What a moron.
Initech
(100,999 posts)underpants
(185,009 posts)I heard about this movie on the radio. Talk radio. I dont remember what show - might have been local drive time. I was thinking that just using cell tracking data is stupid because peoples regular daily path could account for almost all these pings. THEN figured out that the filmmaker was Dinesh and I actually laughed out loud while driving.
I think this was something Trump referenced a week or so ago. Pathetic.
This AP fact check goes pretty much exactly as I was thinking as I heard this.
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/05/08/2000-mules-fact-check/
Celerity
(46,154 posts)A film debuting in over 270 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 thats 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.
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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 didnt 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.
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Frasier Balzov
(3,362 posts)A film about mules endorsed by a horse's ass.