I realize this is a very heated topic. I just want to add some objective analysis here. First off I want to say you are free to think whatever time want about the election fraud that did or did not happen.
However, this movie is NOT a quality source of information. Of you want to read into the actual results of a true investigation into voter fraud, you
can check this out.
Here it is in an article from The Hill, which is more of right-wing news source. It may not confirm your preexisting believes and tell you what you want to hear...but it was a well done, thorough analysis on the issue, unlike this movie.
However, just the premise alone of this "documentary" has SERIOUS issues.
I urge people on both sides, whenever they see an article or a new movie or piece of media making a claim on either side, but especially regarding something they believe in are are subject to confirmation bias for, to PLEASE, PLEASE, BACK AWAY from your personal beliefs and try to analyze it objectively.
Ask questions, such as:
- Does the maker of this media have an agenda? In this case, yes, very much so.
- How severe are their claims? Is the evidence they provide (if any) up to the caliber required to back up the severity of their claims?
- How large is this conspiracy? We all know that the more people involved in a conspiracy the more likely at least one of them is to come forth regarding the crimes.
- Are there things that don't make sense or are too much of a stretch or simply not possible with modern technology?
- In this case they said they bought $2 million worth of ANONYMIZED cellphone geolocation data based off of cell tower pings (and possible some that had their location service on). Location service on is best case scenario and even that can only track a device within a few meters...but cell phone pings are not a reliable method of tracking location at all. This is well proven and essentially that portion of the dataset would be useless. I work in IT and I can tell you this from personal experience, if they try to tell you they gleaned useful info from cell tower ping data, they are absolutely, 100% LYING, which is obviously extremely concerning, given the gravity of the claims they're making and trying to support.
- Additionally, they said they bought anonymized data. But later in the doc they say they filtered out people whose "pattern of life" caused them to frequent the location normally. However, how the hell would they reliably do this if the data they had was anonymized? Especially with these ballot boxes being in already busy areas, there's simply no good way to actually tie a specific person to their anonymized data. Doing so would take hundreds and hundreds of hours of work--not including the supposed investigation into their "pattern of life". I just really struggle to believe that this information, which the entire "documentary" hinges upon, is accurate enough or good enough.
- There is absolutely no evidence of any payments being given to anyone here, which is a key aspect of this conspiracy.
So overall, this entire documentary will not actually provide you with any NEW information regarding this topic. It essentially
appears to be almost entirely smoke and mirrors. In my opinion the only people who will consume (and especially pay for) it and believe it are those who already believe the election fraud conspiracy anyway. It is simply meant to play off your confirmation bias.
So if you believe in the election fraud, just go ahead and believe it. But buying this movie is a total waste of your money and watching it is a total waste of your time. It simply is too poorly done to be of any value for anyone.
Let me go ahead and share a well done fact check on the movie:
Fact-checking ‘2000 Mules,’ the movie alleging ballot fraud
I wouldn't normally cite Wikipedia, but they do a good job summarizing the fact check:
2000 Mules - Wikipedia
Taken from the article:
"The film presented a
single anonymous witness who said she saw people picking up what she "assumed" to be payments for ballot collection in Arizona; no evidence of payments was presented in any of the other four states."
(MFAAS: so what? they could only find ONE PERSON who was a "witness"? and the best they could say is that they "assumed" people picked up payments for ballot collection?? LMAO good luck getting that to hold up in court!!)
That is pathetic. If I were asserting widespread multi-state election fraud involving thousands upon thousands of people, I would try to include more than one extremely weak personal anecdote.
There is also absolutely nothing to even link the people he shows in the videos at the ballot boxes to the people in the data set that he tracked via cell tower ping data (which is EXTREMELY INNACURATE).
I'm sorry but there simply isn't any
actual legitimate evidence of fraud, aside from the well done investigation/report I shared at the beginning for the post
Back to the article:
"...experts say cellphone location data, even at its most advanced, can only reliably track a smartphone within a few meters — not close enough to know whether someone actually dropped off a ballot or just walked or drove nearby.
“You could use cellular evidence to say this person was in that area, but to say they were at the ballot box, you’re stretching it a lot,” said Aaron Striegel, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame. “There’s always a pretty healthy amount of uncertainty that comes with this.”
What’s more, ballot drop boxes are often intentionally placed in busy areas, such as college campuses, libraries, government buildings and apartment complexes — increasing the likelihood that innocent citizens got caught in the group’s dragnet, Striegel said.
Similarly, there are plenty of legitimate reasons why someone might be visiting both a nonprofit’s office and one of those busy areas. Delivery drivers, postal workers, cab drivers, poll workers and elected officials all have legitimate reasons to cross paths with numerous drop boxes or nonprofits in a given day.
True the Vote has said it filtered out people whose “pattern of life” before the election season included frequenting nonprofit and drop box locations. But that strategy wouldn’t filter out election workers who spend more time at drop boxes during the election season, cab drivers whose daily paths don’t follow a pattern, or people whose routines recently changed.
In some states, in an attempt to bolster its claims, True the Vote also highlighted drop box surveillance footage that showed voters depositing multiple ballots into the boxes. However, there was no way to tell whether those voters were the same people as the ones whose cellphones were anonymously tracked.
A video of a voter dropping off a stack of ballots at a drop box is not itself proof of any wrongdoing, since most states have legal exceptions that let people drop off ballots on behalf of family members and household members.
For example, Larry Campbell, a voter in Michigan who was not featured in the film, told The Associated Press he legally dropped off six ballots in a local drop box in 2020 — one for himself, his wife, and his four adult children. And in Georgia, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office investigated one of the surveillance videos circulated by True the Vote and said it found the man was dropping off ballots for himself and his family."
Best wishes to everyone. I just hate to see people fall victim to such shittily made media as this. The only fraud going on here is this "documentary" and the claims it makes.
