The AP’s Ali Swenson attempted to debunk the 2,000 Mules election fraud documentary. It didn’t go well. He/She/It focused on the limitations of cellphone GPS geolocation, and a gullible hack’s — herself — lack of knowledge.
FACT FOCUS: Gaping holes in the claim of 2K ballot ‘mules’
Praised by former President Donald Trump as exposing “great election fraud,” the movie, called “2000 Mules,” paints an ominous picture suggesting Democrat-aligned ballot “mules” were supposedly paid to illegally collect and drop off ballots in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.But that’s based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data, which is not precise enough to confirm that somebody deposited a ballot into a drop box, according to experts.
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Plus, experts say cellphone location data, even at its most advanced, can only reliably track a smartphone within a few meters — not close enough to know whether someone actually dropped off a ballot or just walked or drove nearby.
Her unnamed experts apparently never checked their own phones’ accuracy. Just for the hell of it, I fired up my phone’s map app.
It showed me walking through my house, down the sidewalk, and finally onto the street. It showed when I stepped back onto the drive, and back to the house. These ain’t the Cold War days, hon, when GPS signals were deliberately degraded for civilians.
But that’s one anecdotal case; something Swenson clearly holds in disdain.
The FBI — and judges issuing probable cause warrants — found phone geolocation to be accurate enough to arrest at least 45 people for alleged January 6 participation.
The CDC found it phone geolocation to be accurate enough to use to determine if the sheep were complying with ChinCOVID lockdowns.
Law enforcement finds phone geolocation to be accurate enough to routinely use in thousands of criminal investigations.
Apple Air Tag geolocation is accurate enough to find lost car keys or track a robbery target to her home.
Geolocation is accurate enough that the DOD banned deployed service members from using FitBit or other wearable geolocation apps. (I love the app that publicly mapped a “secret” military installation.)
But Swenson carefully notes that even if the geolocation data is good, then it doesn’t necessarily mean the person tracked is the same person seen on video dumping handfuls of ballots. Even when that same person s seen dumping at multiple boxes across a city — in the middle of the night — confluent with that same geolocated phone. Pure coincidence… dozens of times.
Swenson explains away the dumps of multiple ballots; That wasn’t harvesting, they were probably dropping off ballots for their families. Funny thing, in Georgia, you can only drop off ballots for immediate family members or members of your own household (not apartment building). The one video I saw of the gloved person dumping what looked like at least two dozen ballots? Just a really big family, I guess. Somewhat larger than the average 2.5 people per household; not 2.53 registered voters, 2.5 adults and children-not-eligible-to-vote.
Those gloves? No prob, Swenson declares. They were wearing gloves in Georgia because it was cold (Atlanta Fall rarely gets that cold), or because of the pandemic. Hint: the damned few Georgians that were gloving up over ChinCOVID fears did it inside, not outdoors, except for a very few paranoiacs, mostly who wouldn’t leave the house anyway. (And if it was cold/pandemic, why did that person peel off the rubber gloves after dumping the ballots>)
I wonder: If little Ali had a stalker, and geolocation kept showing the same phone approaching her home, at the same time that her Ring camera coincidentally showed the same creep coming to her door… over and over and over… would she blow that off as “coincidence;” maybe just a UPS driver driving past on his regular route… at 3 AM?
