255,000 excess votes for Biden in 2020 battleground states, says report

A new peer-reviewed study found evidence of about 255,000 excess votes for President Joe Biden in six key battleground states in the 2020 election.

The deep dive into ballot counts of six states where former President Donald Trump alleged voter fraud was conducted by John Lott Jr., economist and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, and is to be published in the journal Public Choice, reports the Washington Examiner.

The main point of the study is to highlight how these extra votes may explain Biden’s margin of victory over Trump in the 2020 Presidential election.

“Biden only carried these states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — by a total of 313,253 votes,” Lott wrote in a summary for RealClearPolitics. “Excluding Michigan, the gap was 159,065.”

Lott stated that his report was not meant to overturn the 2020 election, but to point out real problems that undermine the American public’s confidence in elections.

The author outlined three methods he used in the study, such as comparing precincts in a county with alleged fraud to neighboring countries with no fraud allegations.

Using this method, Lott found 17,000 unexplained votes in Fulton County, Georgia – 32% more than Biden’s margin over Trump in the entire state. In comparison, there were no unexplained gaps in absentee ballots found in 2016.

Another method was examining areas with usually high turnouts, as Democrats tended to have lower turnouts in 2020. This method found 2,423 voters in Fulton County that were not registered, along with 2,560 felons who had voted without completing their sentences.

The study said there is evidence of up to 368,000 fraudulent votes. It also does not account for any in-person voter fraud, only absentee votes.

Lott argues that America is an outlier for its lax voter ID requirements and absentee voting, citing that 46 of 47 European countries require photo IDs and 75% of them ban absentee voting entirely.

A Rasmussen poll found that photo IDs to vote were supported by clear majorities of all ages, races, parties, incomes and education levels. The lowest was amongst Democrats, where 46% supported and 45% opposed.