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This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting

The right-wing media company that published the purported documentary and book “2000 Mules” announced late last week that it was pulling them from distribution. Salem Media Group also apologized to an Atlanta man for false claims in the film that he’d illegally cast the ballots of others.

It is the latest in a long series of hits to the film’s credibility, though the movie and its makers — Dinesh D’Souza and conservative nonprofit True the Vote — appear to still have a few lives left. ...

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....