It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of nuts

Created
Thu, 17/08/2023 - 09:30
Updated
Thu, 17/08/2023 - 09:30
True the Vote finally gets cornered Texas vote suppression and bullshit artist organization True the Vote is in trouble down in Georgia. These guys have been around for quite a while (I wrote about them for years — here’s one from 2012) but they went mainstream when Trump and his “rigged” mantra came along. They teamed up with the convicted felon and propagandist Dinesh D’Souza for the movie “2,000 Mules” which Trump claims proves his 2020 fraud accusations. Anyway, it appears they messed with the wrong people. JV Last at the Bulwark has the story: There’s another 2020 election case percolating in Fulton County: The Georgia State Election Board is suing True the Vote—the group whose “data” makes up the lion’s share of Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules nonsense. It’s a pretty wild example of FAFO. The short version: True the Vote is a Texas-based group, which filed a complaint with Georgia’s State Election Board alleging fraud in the 2020 presidential campaign. The Georgia State Election Board (we’ll just call it the SEB from here on out) investigated this complaint and found no fraud. So it asked True the Vote to share its evidence. True the Vote’s response was: The long version of the story is even crazier. So it’s November 30, 2021, the heady days of #StopTheSteal, a time when anything—even the restoration of Trump to the White House—seemed possible. That’s when True the Vote submitted its election fraud complaints to SEB as part of the lead-up to the creation of D’Souza’s 2000…