MAGA Group Lies About Ballot Stuffing In Georgia

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With the present information cycle targeted on Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis and the listening to to find out whether or not she must be disqualified from prosecuting the RICO case in opposition to Donald Trump and greater than a dozen co-defendants accused of election interference in Georgia, it’s straightforward to overlook how we acquired right here within the first place:

All MAGA Republicans do is lie.

Lately, a conservative group that claimed to have ironclad proof of unlawful poll stuffing in Georgia throughout the 2020 common election needed to admit to a choose that—(really, you guys ought to in all probability sit down for this one so that you don’t harm yourselves)—such proof doesn’t exist.

Based on the Related Press, True the Vote, a bunch of Trump supporters based mostly out of Texas, filed complaints with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2021 claiming to have obtained “an in depth account of coordinated efforts to gather and deposit ballots in drop packing containers throughout metro Atlanta” throughout the November 2020 election and a January 2021 runoff. Did the group hassle to say any particulars relating to the “detailed account” of election fraud? Nope! Did the group maintain out on revealing the alleged proof to the purpose the place state election officers acquired more and more pissed off with their unwillingness to place their cash the place their mouths had been? Yep! Does “True the Vote” look like an egregious misnomer for the very same motive Trump’s “Reality Social” platform clearly is? Oh, hell yeah!

Final 12 months, a Fulton County Superior Courtroom choose in Atlanta signed an order requiring the group to supply the proof it says it collected to state election officers, together with the identities of the group’s sources of data. Surprisingly to completely nobody who isn’t considering getting a “Construct That Wall” tramp stamp tattoo, attorneys for True the Vote despatched again a written response saying the group has no names, documentation or proof of any variety to share. (For those who’re affected by excessive shock proper now, cease studying this and search medical consideration instantly, please!)

Booooy, it’s a great factor some right-wing documentarian didn’t produce a complete movie largely based mostly on these ballot-stuffing allegations for which there isn’t a proof—as a result of that will be embarrassing!

From AP:

True the Vote’s assertions had been relied upon closely for “2000 Mules,” a broadly debunked movie by conservative pundit and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. A State Election Board investigation discovered that surveillance digital camera footage that the movie claimed confirmed poll stuffing really confirmed individuals submitting ballots for themselves and members of the family who lived with them, which is allowed below Georgia legislation.

The election board subpoenaed True the Vote to supply proof that will help it in investigating the group’s poll trafficking allegations.

True the Vote’s grievance mentioned its investigators “spoke with a number of people relating to private data, strategies, and organizations concerned in poll trafficking in Georgia.” It mentioned one particular person, referred to within the grievance solely as John Doe, “admitted to personally taking part and offered particular details about the poll trafficking course of.”

So, simply to recap: Trump, Rudy Giuliani and the remainder of his completely disgraced authorized staff spent years repeating claims of election fraud with out presenting proof. A gaggle of Trump supporters filed a grievance to Raffensperger—the identical secretary of state Trump pressured to “discover” non-existent Trump votes—claiming poll stuffing occurred with out presenting proof. Lastly, a conservative filmmaker launched a documentary chronicling all of those claims for which nobody introduced proof.

Why precisely are we mad at Fani once more?