Sheriff featured in election fraud documentary opens investigations

An Arizona county sheriff's office featured in Dinesh D'Souza's "2000 Mules" documentary on alleged ballot trafficking in the 2020 presidential election is working with the county recorder to investigate vote fraud.

Just the News reported the Yuma County Sheriff's Office is working on 16 vote fraud cases.

As WND reported, "2000 Mules" features an investigation by the election integrity group True the Vote, whose founder, Catherine Engelbrecht explained to WND in a video interview (embedded below) how her team uncovered a highly coordinated operation in key battleground states carried out by left-wing groups that collected mail-in ballots and paid "mules" to stuff them in unattended drop boxes, typically in the middle of the night.

Just the News reported the sheriff's office so far has evidence of impersonation voting – voting in someone else's name – and false registrations, in which fraudsters either use a real or fake name and information, and obtain false voter registrations.

Also found was duplicate voting as well as fraudulent use of absentee ballots, when someone asks for a ballot in someone else's name.

Engelbrecht said she was "extremely encouraged" that the Yuma County Sheriff's Office and Recorder's Office are probing "the subversion of elections."

"We've spent concentrated time in Yuma County and have provided significant information to both state and federal authorities," she said. "What has been happening in Yuma County is happening across the country. The targeting of vulnerable communities and voter abuse must be stopped."

Dinesh D'Souza, the producer of "2000 Mules," told the "John Solomon Reports" podcast an alleged Yuma County mule who spoke with True the Vote also is cooperating with authorities.

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He said that after five days, 1 million people had seen "2000 Mules," and it has made over $10 million, "which, for a political documentary, is like downright insane."

Half a dozen people already have been indicted in Arizona for illegal ballot harvesting.

WND reported this week True the Vote's reply to the Associated Press fact-check of the film.

The AP's main charge was that the cellphone location data was not precise enough to determine whether or not an individual actually visited a particular drop box. Innocent people, the news wire contended, may have been caught up in their data.

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However, in a 2018 Supreme Court opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that when the government "tracks the location of a cell phone," it "achieves near perfect surveillance as if it had attached an ankle monitor to the phone’s user."

Engelbrecht emphasized that the criteria used to identify a person as a ballot trafficker was intended to rule out individuals who might merely have been passing by. The person not only had to have made multiple trips to multiple drop boxes, he or she also had to have made at least five visits to one or more of the non-profit, left-wing organizations that turned out to be a nexus of ballot traffic.

D'Souza said in a video interview with WND (embedded below) that the investigation featured in the movie will "blow out of the water" the idea that the 2020 vote was the most secure election ever.

See the WND interview with Dinesh D'Souza:

Last week, Georgia state investigators who responded to a complaint by True the Vote issued subpoenas that signal they are engaged in a wide-ranging probe into the alleged ballot trafficking, Just the News reported.

See the WND interview with Catherine Engelbrecht:

See a trailer for the film "2000 Mules":

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