The movie alleges that more than 200 “mules” worked in Maricopa and Yuma counties, making an average of 20 trips each to ballot drop boxes, dropping off an average of five ballots per trip for a total of 20,000 votes.
OPINION by Laurie Roberts || The Arizona Republic
As blockbusters go, “2000 Mules” is more donkey droppings than it is evidence of a conspiracy.
Numerous fact checkers have called the documentary’s analysis – that ballot drop boxes in Arizona and other swing states were stuffed with pro-Biden ballots – flawed.
The movie alleges that more than 200 “mules” worked in Maricopa and Yuma counties, making an average of 20 trips each to ballot drop boxes, dropping off an average of five ballots per trip for a total of 20,000 votes.
All that’s missing is, you know, any actual evidence.
The documentary provides no evidence that anyone made more than one trip to a ballot box. No evidence of any conspiracy to stuff ballot boxes. No evidence that all those supposedly phony ballots were for Biden.
So naturally, the Republican-run Arizona Legislature is dropping everything to hold a hearing on Tuesday afternoon. Hosting the event with Townsend: Rep. Shawnna Bolick, who is running for secretary of state, hoping Arizona voters will put her in charge of running the 2024 elections.
Look for all of the Legislature’s biggest conspiracy kooks to be there.
Meanwhile, the state budget …
