Now, one of those organizations -- True the Vote -- has released the first of what is believed to be many stunning videos allegedly showing a man stuffing several ballots in a collection box in what the group says is de facto evidence of illegal ballot trafficking during the last election.
"Video appears to show illegal ballot harvester in Gwinnett County on Oct 12, 2020! He fans out ballots, takes a photo, & places them in the dropbox. It’s been reported that illegal ballot harvesters were paid $10 per ballot, & had to show proof," noted Heather Mullins of Real America's Voice TV on Twitter in a post containing the video.
BREAKING! GEORGIA!? Video appears to show illegal ballot harvester in Gwinnett County on Oct 12, 2020! He fans out ballots, takes a photo, & places them in the dropbox. It’s been reported that illegal ballot harvesters were paid $10 per ballot, & had to show proof. @RealAmVoice pic.twitter.com/dEejRiSrX7
— Heather Mullins - Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) (@TalkMullins) January 29, 2022
At one point, the man appears to hold up several ballot envelopes that are fanned out so he can take video or a photo of them using his cellphone before he begins stuffing them into a ballot collection box.
"Ballot harvesting in Georgia is 100% illegal. There is no telling if those ballots were lawfully cast or not until it’s further investigated. Story unfolding," Mullins added in a separate tweet.
?? Ballot harvesting in Georgia is 100% illegal. There is no telling if those ballots were lawfully cast or not until it’s further investigated. Story unfolding...
— Heather Mullins - Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) (@TalkMullins) January 29, 2022
The organization "has compiled evidence of organized ballot trafficking in six states," Citizen Free Press added. "In Georgia, they allege there were 242 traffickers who made a total of 5,662 trips to ballot drop boxes between the early morning hours of 12AM and 5AM, potentially unloading hundreds of thousands of illegally harvested ballots over the course of several weeks."
Last week, David Cross with VoterGA also shared the first video example of potential ballot stuffing released by True the Vote, which was garnered from surveillance footage of the dropbox in question. The video "appears to show [an] illegal ballot harvester in Gwinnett County on Oct. 12, 2020. He fans out ballots, takes a photo, and places them in the dropbox. It's been reported that illegal ballot harvesters" were paid the fee that Mullins reported in her tweet, CFP noted further, adding that the photo served as proof for payment purposes.
As for the group True the Vote, the organization has been subjected to left-wing harassment for its voter integrity efforts in the past.
For instance, the group was audited by Barack Obama's FBI in 2013 as part of his IRS intimidation scandal -- that is, he used the tax agency to target conservative nonprofits, denying them tax-exempt status ahead of his 2012 reelection campaign so they could not advertise against him.
"This was a political operation. If it had not been, then the statistics tell us left-wing groups would have been harassed and abused, and seen their applications leaked to the press. There would be a left-wing equivalent to Catherine Engelbrecht," who formed True the Vote and King Street Patriots at the time to register conservatives to vote, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.
"And all of this apparently took place in the years leading up to the 2012 election. Meaning that before that election, groups that were anti-Obamacare, or pro-life, or pro-Second Amendment or constitutionalist, or had words like 'tea party' or 'patriot' in their name -- groups, that is, that would support Republicans, not Democrats -- were suppressed, thwarted, kept from raising money and therefore kept from fully operating," the paper continued.
Little has changed in terms of Democratic voter suppression operations since the days of Obama, obviously.
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