Election Integrity Group Unveils Findings on Ballot Trafficking in Arizona

Contact Your Elected Officials
The Epoch Times Header

The election integrity group True the Vote presented Arizona lawmakers with cell phone tracking data showing alleged ballot traffickers visited drop boxes in two of the stateโ€™s largest counties no less than 5,700 times during the 2020 election.

โ€œWhen we started the project, we didnโ€™t know [what we would find],โ€ said Catherine Engelbrecht, the Texas groupโ€™s founder and president.

โ€œWe began to think through what is a realistic expectation or threshold for when going to a dropbox is too many times. We wanted to focus on a clear, narrow data set [to demonstrate] โ€œextreme outlier behavior.โ€

The groupโ€™s investigators settled on 10 visits as an actual numberโ€”but โ€œhere, in Arizona, they went an average of 21 times,โ€ Engelbrecht told the panel of state legislators on May 31.

Lawmakersโ€”all Republicanโ€”vowed to move forward with HB-2289 to make ballot drop boxes illegal in Arizona.

โ€œThe only thing I would like to see come out of this meeting is people going to jail,โ€ said State Rep. Quang Nguyen (R). โ€œI would just like to see people cuffed.โ€

The presentation was delayed 45 minutes while Arizona Democratic legislators wrangled over proposed gun control.

โ€œThis is political grandstanding, which I find is shameful,โ€ said Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem (R).

โ€œTheyโ€™re trying to suspend the rules, which is always a bad ideaโ€”to bring forward a bill that hasnโ€™t gone to committee, and that has not had any vetting whatsoever. Itโ€™s not going to happen.โ€

During the 90-minute presentation, Engelbrecht and True the Vote data investigator Gregg Phillips, former head of Mississippiโ€™s Department of Human Services, described the groupโ€™s investigation into so-called โ€œmules,โ€ illegal ballot runners, and the role NGOs may have played to commit 2020 election fraud.

The investigation focused on two of the stateโ€™s largest countiesโ€”Maricopa County and Yuma Countyโ€”and on unique visits to ballot boxes utilizing cell phone tracking technology to develop โ€œpatterns of lifeโ€ for each alleged ballot trafficker.

โ€œWe resolved to try to find a path that we could measure that would be useful to law enforcement,โ€ Engelbrecht said.

The study used Oct. 7 and Nov. 3, 2020 as a timeframe, identifying 202 target devices that made 4,242 unique dropbox visits in Maricopa County.

In Yuma County, the study found 1,435 unique dropbox visits by 41 target devices based on cell phone signals, or โ€œpings.โ€

Engelbrecht said a geofence is around every dropbox to provide a โ€œdigital coordinate setโ€ and measure how many times a device passed through the geofence. Measurements are precise to within a meter of contact with a ballot box.

The federal government uses the same tracking technology. Its accuracy is โ€œnearly perfect [like] wearing an ankle bracelet,โ€ Engelbrecht said.

โ€œFriends, itโ€™s happening on all of our phones, which are attached to us at almost all times. Suffice for this purpose and for this time to say the outlier set was so extreme that it warrants serious consideration, one that we hope this body before us will consider,โ€ she said.

Phillips said the web of cell phone signals is โ€œso significant. Your phone is sending regular pings [this] is how all that comes together.โ€

He added, โ€œIt canโ€™t be overstated not to do what the [New York Times] didโ€ in a series of articles on geofencingโ€”โ€to say we got 50 billion pings and make all these [erroneous] assumptions.โ€

Phillips said the groupโ€™s study sifted through billions of signals, โ€œteasing outโ€ devices based to exclude โ€œfalse positiveโ€ signals.

Dinesh Dโ€™Souza illustrated these findings in the new movie โ€œ2,000 Mules,โ€ which seeks to expose organized ballot trafficking in the 2020 election.

โ€œWe decided to go in on a methodology that uses ad data [embedded] in all of your phones. This is how digital DNA is captured,โ€ Engelbrecht said.

โ€œIf there were a subversion of [electoral] process, it would show up in the drop boxes. We believed that to prove it [geospatial data] would be something to focus on. We resolved to look at the ways to prove this.โ€

True the Vote is investigating alleged 2020 ballot harvesting in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania electoral jurisdictions as well, and will share its findings with law enforcement officials that could lead to criminal investigations.

Engelbrecht said inaccurate voter rolls provide a โ€œgateway to all your problemsโ€ with mass mailing of ballots. She said that issues are more likely to occur at ballot drop boxes because they are not well regulated.

True the Vote recommends Arizona lawmakers commit to clean voter rolls using real-time technology, and eliminate mass mailing of ballots and drop boxes. Or at the very least, drop boxes should be secure with video surveillance technology.

Finally, lawmakers should make the penalty for ballot running something โ€œcheaters will fear,โ€ said Engelbrecht, who views 2020 election fraud as a โ€œvertical grift layers and layers deep.โ€

โ€œThe exploitation targets the most vulnerable communities. This is voter abuse. This is not about Republicans or Democrats. This is about securing the vote,โ€ Engelbrecht said.

Arizona state Rep. Leo Biasiucci (R) said, โ€œObviously, something is going on. Weโ€™ve got to figure out what went wrong, how to fix it, and if you were involved, you should be prosecuted.โ€

State Sen. Nancy Barto (R) said it is โ€œvery scaryโ€ for voters not to have confidence in the ballot.

โ€œWe are going to get a handle on this,โ€ she said.

State Sen. Walter โ€œWaltโ€ Blackman (R) summed up the solution for Arizona in โ€œHB-2289.โ€

โ€œAfter seeing this, we need to move forward with [HB-]2289,โ€ he said to loud applause.

By Allan Stein

Read Original Article on TheEpochTimes.com

The Epoch Times
The Epoch Timeshttps://www.theepochtimes.com/
Tired of biased news? The Epoch Times is truthful, factual news that other media outlets don't report. No spin. No agenda. Just honest journalism like it used to be.

Why the Trump Administration is Sitting on the Epstein Files

President Trump, AG Bondi, and FBI Dir. Patel have the advantage over us in that they see the big overall picture when it comes to the Epstein List.

Trumpโ€™s โ€œMajor Statementโ€ On Russia Is A Clumsy Attempt To Thread The Needle

The โ€œmajor statementโ€ on Russia Trump hyped up turned out to be an attempt to thread the needle between escalating US involvement in Ukrainian and walking away from it.

AI Takes Customer Service from Doublespeak to Triplespeak

Corporations are replacing customer service agents with AI agents. Here's a real-life example of attempting to use AI to have my internet restored.

The Left’s Descent into Extremismย ย 

The political left, from mainstream Dems to radical Antifa, have embraced extremism, alienating swaths of the public and undermining their own influence.

Roger Stone Speaks About Trump at Turning Point USA

Longtime Donald Trump friend, Roger Stone, gave a speech at the 2025 TPUSA convention offering his take on the recent Epstein List controversy.

Violence Against ICE Escalates Across America

ICE officers face increased confrontation on the street, which crosses the line between free speech and physical violence.

International Buyers Purchased $56 Billion Worth of US Homes in 1 Year

Foreign buyers purchased $56 billion worth of existing homes in the US between April 2024 and March 2025, up by 33.2% from the previous 12 months.

Inflation Ticks Up Again in June as Annual Rate Reaches 2.7 Percent

U.S. inflation registered its largest increase in five months in June and provided little indication whether tariffs were triggering price pressures.

What to Know About the ICE Operation at California Cannabis Farms

The immigration operation at two cannabis farms led to the detention of 361 Illegal Immigrants, and 14 unaccompanied minors being found.

Trump to Announce $70 Billion Energy and Innovation Investment in Pittsburgh

President Trump is meeting with business leaders to discuss how best to meet the energy and computing needs of the future.

Attorney General Pam Bondi Dismisses Justice Departmentโ€™s Top Ethics Lawyer

AG Pam Bondi terminated the head of the DOJโ€™s ethics division, according to a letter posted to social media by the fired official.

Trumpโ€™s Potential Secondary Tariffs on Russia Would Clobber China, India

President Trump said he will impose โ€œvery severeโ€ secondary tariffs on Russia if President Putin does not agree to a cease-fire with Ukraine in 50 days. (09-14-22)

Trump Says He Spoke to Bongino Amid Reports of Infighting Over Epstein Files

President Trump spoke to FBI Deputy Dir. Dan Bongino, indicating the two remain close despite reported friction over release of Jeffrey Epstein docs.
spot_img

Related Articles