Pro-Trump elections group hit with lawsuit for failing to provide evidence of fraud claim: report

The Georgia State Election Board has filed a lawsuit against a right-wing group claiming to promote election integrity over its refusal to share evidence backing conspiracy theory-fueled allegations depicted in the film “2000 Mules,” according to a published report.

The State Election Board filed the lawsuit against True the Vote Tuesday in an effort to compel the Texas-based group to share evidence that supports the group’s unsubstantiated allegations of impropriety in the 2020 presidential election, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

True the Vote claims there was an organized effort by some groups in 2020 to pay $10 per absentee ballot delivered to Atlanta-area drop boxes, but the group hasn’t submitted evidence in support of the allegations that the State Election Board has requested for more than year.

The group has touted the unfounded allegation to advance its belief that the 2020 election was stolen after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger bluntly asserted that such allegations need to be supported by evidence.

“Allegations of election irregularities need to be accompanied by evidence,” Raffensperger said, according to the report.

“I encourage anyone with such evidence to turn it over and it will be fully investigated. But if you don’t have the evidence, don’t come into Georgia and make far-fetched and hyperbolic claims. It’s long past time to put up or shut up.”

True the Vote has fought the State Election Board’s subpoena claiming it needs to protect confidential sources, according to attorney Michael Wynne’s June 30 letter to Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Vaughan obtained by The AJC.

“True the Vote insists it has an obligation not to disclose the identity of confidential sources, out of concern for their physical safety,” Wynne’s letter said.

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