I saw the film “2000 Mules” soon after its release last spring, having been goaded into doing so by its director, Dinesh D’Souza.
He’d seen an article I had written about the group True the Vote, which appeared before a legislative committee in Wisconsin to allege that the 2020 vote in the state had been tainted by rampant “ballot trafficking” — the group’s apparently bespoke term for the collection and submission of multiple ballots. The method they used to allege that hundreds of people had shuttled around the state dumping ballots was anonymized cellphone geolocation data, something that an expert with whom I spoke indicated was not feasible in the way they suggested.
D’Souza challenged me to watch the movie, which I was eager to do. And, sure enough: There was nothing in the film that actually supported D’Souza’s arguments about “mules” bulk-submitting ballots in multiple states — which is to say that True the Vote didn’t actually make the case D’Souza insisted that it did. Not only was there no example shown of anyone submitting ballots in multiple drop boxes, the only map purporting to show someone driving around dumping ballots was fake — by the admission of True the Vote’s Gregg Phillips.
I interviewed D’Souza at length about the film. And while he admitted that he was reliant on the data from True the Vote, he insisted it had outside validators. For example, he noted with approval that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation didn’t say the geolocation data was fake,...
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