Group featured in debunked ‘2000 Mules’ election doc admits it has no evidence

Conspiracy theory group True the Vote claims it was victimized by an “orchestrated hit” after presenting no evidence to support election fraud claims it made in the debunked “2000 Mules” documentary, which alleged the 2020 election was rigged.

In late 2023, a Fulton County Superior Court judge in Atlanta ordered the Texas-based organization to present proof of its false claims that illegal ballot stuffing occurred in 2020 and again in a 2021 runoff election in Georgia, where Democrats won both of that state’s Senate seats.

True the Vote told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2021 that it possessed “a detailed account of coordinated efforts to collect and deposit ballots in drop boxes across metro Atlanta.”

A Raffensperger spokesman said Wednesday that True the Vote has offered bupkis, according to the Associated Press.

“Once again, True the Vote has proven itself untrustworthy and unable to provide a shred of evidence for a single one of their fairy-tale allegations,”  spokesman Mike Hassinger said. “Like all the lies about Georgia’s 2020 election, their fabricated claims of ballot harvesting have been repeatedly debunked.”

The Georgia State Election Board said in December that True the Vote claimed 117 Georgia citizens called its hotline in Georgia to complain of voting irregularities, but the organization presented no contact information for those people. True the Vote also had no “records in its possession, custody, or control” to prove other allegations of electoral misconduct it had made, state officials told the court.

“2000 Mules,” a 2022 movie made by right-wing activist Dinesh D’Souza, leaned largely on research reported by True the Vote.

The widely mocked documentary was screened by former President Donald Trump during an event attended by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, MyPillow owner Mike Lindell and celebrity gunman Kyle Rittenhouse. D’Souza pleaded guilty to a 2014 federal election felony and was pardoned by Trump in 2018.

True the Vote’s response to coverage of Raffensperger’s admonishment blamed “legacy media” for shaming the organization and declared, “The darkness is being dialed up like never before.”

With News Wire Services