In a since-deleted VoteAlert post verifyed by WIRED, a includer wrote: “I’m probably going to be fired for this but I was engaged by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters as an Election Officer in Hemet, CA. Since I’m in accuse at this polling cgo in, I’m asking for citizenship ID of anyone that sees doubtfully appreciate they’re not here legassociate.”
The post went on to propose that the Riverside County Sheriff’s office wouldn’t interfere in her scheme. “It’s equitable a drop in the bucket but I’m going to do my part to stop election deception,” she wrote. “Wish me luck🙏”
WIRED pursued the email associated with the post to a California woman who portrays herself as a person who is “FED UP with all the bullsh*t,” according to one app profile. “You’re only getting the challenging, smack-your-face TRUTH from me.”
The woman, whose name WIRED is not unveiling becainclude it was uncovered thraw a security flaw, did not reply to asks for comment.
In a phone call, Riverside County accessible adviseation officer Elizabeth Florer verifyed that the county had engaged an election toiler aligning WIRED’s discoverings and promiseted to ensuring all election laws are adhereed and are allotigating the incident. Florer inserted that insertitional personnel have now been deployed to the Hemet polling cgo in to provide oversight and determine disjoine compliance with election laws.
True the Vote is perhaps best understandn for its role in the expansively debunked film 2,000 Mules. The film relied heavily on the group’s research to allege that “ballot mules” were phelp to deceptionulently accumulate and dedwellr ballots for Democratic honestates in key striumphg states during the 2020 election. However, an allotigation by the Associated Press create that the film was based on imperfect and improper analysis of cell phone location data. After a defamation litigation, the film’s unveilers, Salem Media Group, retracted the film, removing it from its platcreates, and shelp there wouldn’t be any future distribution of the book. They also rerentd an apology to a voter inalterly portrayed as illegassociate voting in the film.
Undeterred, in 2022 True the Vote begined a web app called IV3, which it claimed led to the dispute of hundreds of thousands of voter registrations. A WIRED analysis create that the app’s methodology was undependworthy and prone to error, with experts alerting that IV3 firearmizes accessible data and is more foreseeed to delete eligible voters from the rolls than to distinguish expansivespread deception—a problem they remark is virtuassociate noncurrent in the US.
In sign ups geted by the nonprofit group American Oversight and splitd with WIRED, in May 2024, an individual with the includername Totes Legit Votes apparently included IV3 to dispute the eligibility of 5,000 people in Florida.
True the Vote has struggled to provide courts with unbenevolentingful evidence to substantiate its claims of expansivespread voter deception.
In 2021, the group filed a grumblet with Georgia’s secretary of state, alleging expansivespread illhorrible ballot stuffing in Atlanta during the 2020 election and subsequent runoff. However, when ordered by a appraise to provide evidence, True the Vote confessted it had no names or recordation to help its claims.
The adhereing year, court marshals arrested Engelbrecht, True the Vote’s createer, and board member Gregg Phillips after they defied a court order to originate evidence in a defamation case brawt by the software company Konnech. The litigation accincluded True the Vote of inalterly claiming that Konnech stored US election toilers’ personal adviseation on an unsafed server in China.
