Lawyer. Mediator. Actor. Skeptic. Author of "Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation” (https://t.co/UcIwHnlKuJ).
Apr 3 • 46 tweets • 13 min read
VoterGA is a self-styled “election integrity” organization that has advanced various election conspiracy claims, even in litigation.
VoterGA’s founder & leader is Garland Favorito. And it is underappreciated just HOW MANY conspiracy theories he has endorsed. Including 9/11 ones.
This is significant because VoterGA is not just a random online outlet. It spent over $320,000 in 2022. It actively promotes legislation. Garland frequently shows up to speak at legislative and election board hearings.
But the beliefs he’s voiced are on par with Alex Jones.
Mar 20 • 40 tweets • 15 min read
True the Vote has long refused to ID its Georgia “whistleblower” who was the inspiration for their ‘2000 Mules’ work. Most recently, they told a court they don’t even know his name.
I believe he was real, TTV knows who he is, and they’ve known he’s not credible *since 2020*.
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TTV’s most prominently invoked their “John Doe” in their complaint to the GA Secretary of State in Nov 2020. It claimed he came to TTV with a story of NGOs running a “ballot trafficking” scheme that he was paid to participate in.
TTV provided no evidence supporting these claims.
Feb 17 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
True the Vote's subpoena responses, where they conceded not actually possessing the evidence they'd claimed to have, has been in the news.
So let's contrast the responses they filed with the court in December 2023 with the answers their attorney submitted in June 2023. 🧵
Sources:
TTV's December '23 responses filed by @MichaelWynneLaw:
GA State Sen. Colton Moore (R - the deeply MAGA NW corner of MTG’s district) really, *really* hates the Fulton Co. RICO case against Donald Trump and company. One of his responses has been to pitch a bill that would exclude certain crimes from being included in RICO prosecutions.
And what he did was go through the Trump RICO indictment and just list the criminal statutes cited in it. Literally every one (except for the catchall statutes for criminal attempt, criminal soliciation, criminal conspiracy, etc.)
Jun 8, 2023 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
True the Vote, of #2000Mules fame, bragged about providing their research to the FBI. Last year, in the midst of the initial hubbub over @DineshDSouza's film, I attempted to get my hands on those records via FOIA.
And what I got, while very limited, was nonetheless illuminating.
Back in 2021, the GBI Director sent a letter saying that the GBI had reviewed TTV’s data, and concluded it didn’t provide probable cause of any crime.
In that letter, it gave the titles of several spreadsheets that TTV had provided to the FBI:
May 23, 2022 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
As many have noted, Dinesh D’Souza’s #2000Mules claims that “mules” visited dozens of drop boxes each, but offers no video of even a single person at more than one drop box.
But they not only claim to possess such video, but that it’s IN THE TRAILER.
So let’s check it out.
First, it is in a recent FAQ on their website that True the Vote says that video of the same person at multiple drop boxes appears in the film’s first trailer, acknowledging that the video is “extremely poor quality.”