"The premise of the film was that thousands (at one point, they claim at least 54,000 people) were employed by unnamed nonprofit groups in key swing states to repeatedly ferry ballots to drop boxes, a process known as ballot harvesting. They claimed that each of these individuals, who D’Souza dubbed “mules,” may have visited ten or more drop boxes in a day and were paid $10 for each delivery.
It was an interesting story. The evidence, however, was sorely lacking. Take all those millions of minutes of video they claimed to review. During the course of the 90-minute film, they showed about a half dozen security video clips of supposed mules, dropping off an average of four or five ballots each. In each case, they claimed the individual was committing a crime.
Turns out, that’s not at all clear.
In fact, as Reuters has reported, law enforcement officials in Georgia were able to identify at least one of the supposed mules included in the movie because a license plate was visible on his car. When contacted, the individual said he was delivering ballots for his family members, which is perfectly legal in Georgia. When law enforcement contacted election officials, they were able to confirm that the ballots for that individual’s family all showed up in the drop box in question on that date.
Far more troubling is the fact that, in all of that video footage, D’Souza’s film can’t show any individual at any drop box more than once. Remember, the claim is that these people were running back and forth ferrying ballots from unnamed nonprofit groups to drop boxes, multiple times a day. And, at least in Georgia, the drop boxes were all subject to video surveillance.
So, why is there no footage of any one of their supposed mules at more than one drop box? Not one instance? It’s a massive hole in their concocted theory, but D’Souza clearly hopes his viewers won’t notice.
I could fill this entire page with similar examples, but let’s also consider the distinction between D’Souza’s film and actual journalism. It’s worth noting that D’Souza includes no interviews with any election officials, who might have been able to provide context to the so-called “evidence” he provides in his film. Nor does he include interviews with anyone representing the unnamed nonprofits that supposedly engaged in the scheme.
One of the first things to keep in mind when considering the credibility of the Dinesh D’Souza film, 2000 Mules, which made its way to Ely this past weekend, is that it makes no attempt to get …
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