The 2000 Mule Lie...or Trump can't believe he lost!

Taylor MI

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Here’s a closer look at the facts. CLAIM: At least 2,000 “mules” were paid to illegally collect ballots and deliver them to drop boxes in key swing states ahead of the 2020 presidential election. THE FACTS: True the Vote didn’t prove this. The finding is based on false assumptions about the precision of cellphone tracking data and the reasons that someone might drop off multiple ballots, according to experts. “Ballot harvesting” is a pejorative term for dropping off completed ballots for people besides yourself. The practice is legal in several states but largely illegal in the states True the Vote focused on, with some exceptions for family, household members and people with disabilities. True the Vote has said it found some 2,000 ballot harvesters by purchasing $2 million worth of anonymized cellphone geolocation data — the “pings” that track a person’s location based on app activity — in various swing counties across five states. Then, by drawing a virtual boundary around a county’s ballot drop boxes and various unnamed nonprofits, it identified cellphones that repeatedly went near both ahead of the 2020 election. If a cellphone went near a drop box more than 10 times and a nonprofit more than five times from Oct. 1 to Election Day, True the Vote assumed its owner was a “mule” — its name for someone engaged in an illegal ballot collection scheme in cahoots with a nonprofit. The group’s claims of a paid ballot harvesting scheme are supported in the film only by one unidentified whistleblower said to be from San Luis, Arizona, who said she saw people picking up what she “assumed” to be payments for ballot collection. The film contains no evidence of such payments in other states in 2020. Plus, 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. This leads us to Trump and D' Souza. D Souza is a wannabe intellectual who was admitted to Dartmouth as a foreign exchange student and as a favor to his father, a J and J exec in India. He barely graduated and his senior thesis was plagiarized. Trump didn't graduate from Penn until his father forked over a Million (USD) to the bursar of the college in small untraceable denominations. And finally, there is the great hypocrisy Mr. D'Souza exhibits by creating this documentary. In 2014 Mr. D'Souza allucuted in a federal courtroom to numerous crimes against Federal Campaign laws; all of which were felony class violations of federal law. WOW! Trump would go on to pardon him, and to repay Trump D'Souza cooked up this documentary. HypocriHere’s a closer look at the facts. CLAIM: At least 2,000 “mules” were paid to illegally collect ballots and deliver them to drop boxes in key swing states ahead of the 2020 presidential election. THE FACTS: True the Vote didn’t prove this. The finding is based on false assumptions about the precision of cellphone tracking data and the reasons that someone might drop off multiple ballots, according to experts. “Ballot harvesting” is a pejorative term for dropping off completed ballots for people besides yourself. The practice is legal in several states but largely illegal in the states True the Vote focused on, with some exceptions for family, household members and people with disabilities. True the Vote has said it found some 2,000 ballot harvesters by purchasing $2 million worth of anonymized cellphone geolocation data — the “pings” that track a person’s location based on app activity — in various swing counties across five states. Then, by drawing a virtual boundary around a county’s ballot drop boxes and various unnamed nonprofits, it identified cellphones that repeatedly went near both ahead of the 2020 election. If a cellphone went near a drop box more than 10 times and a nonprofit more than five times from Oct. 1 to Election Day, True the Vote assumed its owner was a “mule” — its name for someone engaged in an illegal ballot collection scheme in cahoots with a nonprofit. The group’s claims of a paid ballot harvesting scheme are supported in the film only by one unidentified whistleblower said to be from San Luis, Arizona, who said she saw people picking up what she “assumed” to be payments for ballot collection. The film contains no evidence of such payments in other states in 2020. Plus, 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. This leads us to Trump and D' Souza. D Souza is a wannabe intellectual who was admitted to Dartmouth as a foreign exchange student and as a favor to his father, a J and J exec in India. He barely graduated and his senior thesis was plagiarized. Trump didn't graduate from Penn until his father forked over a Million (USD) to the bursar of the college in small untraceable denominations. And finally, there is the great hypocrisy Mr. D'Souza exhibits by creating this documentary. In 2014 Mr. D'Souza allucuted in a federal courtroom to numerous crimes against Federal Campaign laws. WOW! Trump would pardon D'Souza of these federal felonies. In return, D'Souza cooked up the documentary '2000 Mules'. The "facts" presented, and the motives and operants used in support, would have failed EVERY Criminal Procedure course offered by EVER SINGLE LAW SCHOOL in America. The Republican Party...a cabal of hypocrites at its finest. The Republican Party...a cabal of hypocrites.