Conservative commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza recently released a documentary, 2,000 Mules, which features the work of True the Vote tracking GPS cell phone locations from around the 2020 election period to track what they have named “mules,” people purportedly illegally transporting hundreds of thousands of ballots from left-leaning nonprofits and depositing them in unmonitored drop boxes in several key swing states, including Arizona. Arizona Attorney General (AG) Mark Brnovich may have already prosecuted one of the mules discussed in the documentary, a Democratic former official in San Luis, and he is currently litigating in court with Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs over her attempts to allow unmonitored drop boxes in the state Elections Procedures Manual (EPM).
In the documentary, a whistleblower whose identity is disguised discusses a prominent Democratic official in San Luis — which is a small town of about 25,500 located in Yuma County — who engaged in ballot harvesting and even enlisted her to assist. Last year, Brnovich’s office prosecuted Guillermina Fuentes, who was a previous mayor of San Luis, a Democratic precinct committee person, and a member of the Gadsden Elementary School Board. A grand jury indicted her in December on one count of ballot abuse, also known as ballot harvesting, for collecting four ballots from people and turning them in. She has a change of plea hearing scheduled for June 2.
The Arizona Sun Times was unable to get confirmation from the AG or the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) whether this was the same person.
Brnovich sued Hobbs last month for not complying with his requested legal changes to her draft 2022 EPM, which includes permitting unmonitored ballot drop boxes. He filed an additional brief on May 6 that listed 13 changes Hobbs has failed to make in order to comply with the law, including a significant section addressing unmonitored ballot drop boxes. He pointed out how allowing them directly violates ARS 16-1005(E), which makes it a class 5 felony for “a person or entity” to serve “as a ballot drop off site, other than those established and staffed by election officials.”
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