After 2000 Mules Premiere, True the Vote Promises to 'Pull the Ripcord' and Release ALL the Data
By Jennifer Van Laar | May 09, 2022 4:27 AM ET
A woman deposits ballots at a drop box in Fulton County, GA. CREDIT: True the Vote, 2000 Mules/Screenshot
Dinesh DâSouzaâs new film, â2000 Mules,â which, according to Politifact, âsuggests a nefarious conspiracy in which so-called âmulesâ submitted ballots en masse,â as part of a ballot harvesting operation in six swing states in numbers large enough to have determined the outcome in that state and, therefore, the nation, premiered Wednesday at Mar-a-Lago.
The filmâs findings are based a review of more than 4 million minutes of ballot drop box surveillance film obtained via public records requests and analysis of a large trove of cell phone geotracking data. True the Vote, a nonprofit organization focused on election integrity issues, obtained the data and retained an investigator, Gregg Phillips, to oversee the analysis. Likely knowing that the fact checkers were going to be out in force immediately to attack the credibility of the film and the data presented therein, Engelbrecht set up a plan to have investigator Phillips perform a massive data dump theyâve code-named âripcordâ so all of the information True the Vote has will be publicly accessible.
Ahh, transparency. Whatâs not to love?
Engelbrecht announced the plan in a video posted to the groupâs Instagram page.
The video portrays a staged conversation between Engelbrecht and Phillips (which ostensibly would have taken place after the filmâs release) in which Phillips asked her what she wants to do. Engelbrecht said:
Release it all. The video, the data, all of it. Make it all public. The world needs to see this.
Phillips tells Engelbrecht that âweâve already built a plan,â then Engelbrecht asked how long it was going to take. Phillips replies:
Give me a few weeks. Iâm leaving right now. Wait for my mark.
Engelbrecht replies:
And then we will pull the ripcord.
âAll of itâ presumably includes the names and addresses of the 501(c)(3) nonprofits the group labeled as âstash housesâ in the film. According to True the Voteâs investigation, these nonprofit organizations served as a place for ballots to be stashed after they were collected from voters, and a base from which âmulesâ were assigned to deliver ballots to the ballot collection boxes at various times and in quantities that wouldnât cause alarm when reported on the drop boxâs chain of custody reports â and, they were the organizations through which the âmulesâ were paid per ballot delivered to the drop boxes. Engelbrecht says that âmulesâ were paid around $10 per ballot but that for the Georgia Senate runoff that price was higher.
The group also spoke to multiple âwhistleblowers,â one of whom was an election observer who contracted with the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) during the Georgia Senate runoff and observed what looked to him to be ballot harvesting occurring and reported such to the NRSC. He claimed that the NRSC did nothing about the report. Presumably, the âripcordâ data would have more information about that informantâs claim, as well as the others.
As the New York Times has reported, geotracking data from smartphones is highly specific and is used by law enforcement for âpattern-of-lifeâ analysis. If the data in the âripcordâ data dump contains geotracking data showing things like one person going to 10, 20, or 30 ballot drop boxes during one election and placing three or five or more ballots in each drop box, that would definitely put to rest the Associated Press and PolitiFactâs laughable contention in their âdebunkingâ articles that the videos True the Vote obtained only showed people legally returning five or six ballots for family members.
While True the Voteâs video says weâll have to wait âa few weeksâ for the data to be released, it wouldnât be surprising if itâs released much sooner. Letâs do this.
(EDITORâS NOTE: Salem Media Corporation, RedStateâs parent corporation, provided funding for â2000 Mules.â)
Jennifer Van Laar
Jennifer Van Laar, RedState's Managing Editor, is an unapologetic California conservative, sports fanatic, mom of three boys, and Gramie to a perfect little girl. She's also the co-host of Sounds Right With Jen and Scott, and joins The Don Dix Show on Salem Radio Network's AM 590 The Answer every Thursday for "Spill The Tea Thursday." Jennifer holds a bachelor's degree from Boston University, and prior to entering the journalism field in 2014, she worked as a court stenographer for nearly 20 years, serving as the official court reporter for more than two dozen first-degree murder cases in North Carolina. Follow her work on Facebook and Twitter. Story tips:
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