“The entirety of the claim rests on cell phone location data, which doesn’t remotely show that people were actually using the drop boxes (it doesn’t have the granularity to show that, as opposed to just walking or even driving by),” said Kenneth R Mayer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who spoke to Reuters via email.Īccording to True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht, who spoke in the documentary, the dataset had been validated because it was used by the organization to solve two murder cases that were “ebbing on cold case status”. It was unclear whether the same test was applied anywhere other than the swing states in question (to prove a unique phenomenon had happened), along with data validity, accuracy, and discussion about other possibilities that could explain the findings. Multiple concerns were raised by experts speaking to Reuters about the “geotracking” portion of the documentary. Viewers were then shown multiple surveillance footage clips of different people at drop boxes, which the documentary said it had identified as some of the ballot traffickers carrying out their crimes. There were 242 people in Atlanta, Georgia, who fitted the bill 200+ in Arizona 100 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 500+ in Michigan, and 1,000+ mules in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – totaling over 2,000 “mules”. The documentary alleges that by tracking phone locations to the addresses of five alleged “stash house” nonprofits and 10 or more drop boxes, the “mules” were identified. Data for Georgia stretched until January, when there was a runoff vote. 3, for Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to the documentary. The “geotracking” data was gleaned from cellphone apps pinpointing device location and movements between Oct. THE METHODOLOGYĭ’Souza and True the Vote analyzed surveillance footage of drop boxes mostly from Georgia, as well as “some” from Arizona, along with “geotracking” data purchased from unnamed brokers. It also alleges that the so-called “mules” were paid $10 for every fake ballot they submitted.ĭ’Souza did not respond to multiple requests for comment from Reuters. Reuters has covered this topic extensively ( here) and ( here), as well as in fact checks ( here), ( here) and ( here).ĭ’Souza’s documentary says Biden victories in swing states could be thanks to 2,000 people – or “mules” – who were hired by unnamed nonprofits - dubbed “stash houses” - to conduct “ballot trafficking”, i.e.: stuffing numerous drop boxes with potentially fake absentee ballots. The 90-minute film "2000 Mules" sees D’Souza team up with True the Vote, a Texas-based nonprofit that describes itself as protecting election integrity ( to investigate alleged voter fraud in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.Īll five of the listed states were swing states in 2020 that ultimately backed Joe Biden for president - and were later central to baseless speculations of fraud. Reuters Fact Check examined the main claims presented in the film and did not find any concrete evidence definitively showing proof of fraud. A documentary directed by conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza claims it can prove widespread fraud was carried out during the 2020 presidential election in the United States.
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