Georgians of all political stripes concerned about honest elections should be interested in watching or learning about documentary filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. His movie 2000 Mules is being released this week in selected theaters and its available online on Saturday, May 7 in a worldwide “virtual premiere.”
Just the other day InsiderAdvantage reported that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is looking at evidence of illegal ballot harvesting. In this connection, the movie raises serious questions about how ballot-harvesting “mules” (paid multiple-ballot carriers) were used in the 2020 elections. The film also shows how “pandemic emergency measures” decreeing absentee ballot drop boxes made the electoral system vulnerable to cheating.
State GOP Chairman David Shafer says he’s especially grateful 2000 Mules has been made and is being shown. In a Friday email, he says:
“Nothing in this movie will come as a surprise to anyone who was paying attention in 2020. The State Executive Committee of the Georgia Republican Party privately and publicly opposed the weakening of our laws, taking the extraordinary step of suing Republican elected officials when our warnings were ignored and culminating in the unprecedented censure of our Secretary of State by a unanimous voice vote of the State Convention.
“Absentee ballot trafficking (or “harvesting,” as some call it) is illegal in Georgia. Through our lawmakers, long before the 2020 election, we made a determination as a state that allowing third parties to handle the absentee ballots of others makes those ballots vulnerable to tampering and fraud. But simply enacting a law is meaningless if that law is not enforced. “Using data collected by election integrity organization True the Vote, from both commercial and public sources, 2000 Mules shows how we believe absentee ballots were illegally trafficked not just in Georgia but in states around the country.
Even non-partisan election observers and journalists note that allowing often-unsupervised drop boxes away from polling places was a mistake—and Raffensperger engineered emergency “COVID rules” that left unguarded drop boxes in public gathering places. “This foolish decision was immediately exploited by the Left,” Shafer notes, “which funneled millions of dollars in ‘private grant money’ to large urban counties to make drop boxes more readily available to voters more likely to vote Democratic than Republican.
“The number of absentee ballots ballooned, from just over 300,000 in 2018 to more than 1.3 million in 2020, and it completely overwhelmed the absentee ballot verification system – a system already weakened by out-of-court lawsuit settlements between the Secretary of State and the Democratic Party,” Shafer noted. The party chairman concluded his statement by saying he’s “hopeful that 2000 Mules will open the eyes of those who want to believe that the wrongdoing that occurred in 2020 was simply the ‘normal fraud’ that we should come to expect and tolerate.”
