Hundreds of Thousands of Excess Votes Counted in Battleground States According To New Study

President Donald Trump shared a new study by economist John Lott on December 30 that questions Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's victory over Trump.

It claims there were 289,000 "excess votes" in six battlegrounds and claims differences in postal ballots between districts with alleged fraud and neighboring districts are "suspicious."

Trump posted a link to Lott's study on Twitter talking about a new Lott study that assumes 11,350 absentee ballots lost to Trump in Georgia, with another 289,000" surplus (fraudulent) votes "in GA, AZ, MI, NV, PA, and WI.

Lott's study is expected to provide measurements of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, including comparing districts in Fulton County, Georgia, that border similar districts in neighboring districts where there are no allegations of fraud.

"In layman's terms, in precincts with alleged fraud, Trump's proportion of absentee votes were depressed—even when such precincts had similar in-person Trump vote shares to their surrounding counties, Lott wrote in the study. He says it's "suspicious" that the shift happened only in absentee ballots and only when a county line was crossed.

Fulton County was the scene of allegations of voter fraud during the recent election, with election officials counting ballots for more than an hour without observers, media, or state officials monitoring them, according to surveillance footage and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office. A state senator said in a recent report that events at Fulton County State Farm Arena appear to involve coordinated illegal activity.

Jessica Corbitt, a Fulton County spokeswoman, said earlier this month that the district had invested every resource possible in ensuring free, fair and transparent elections following all applicable laws.

She said that we have no credible reports of voter fraud or misconduct in Fulton County so far. Any credible report of such activities will be investigated and addressed as required by Georgian law.

According to Lott, the best estimate shows an unusual 7.81 percent drop in Trump's percentage of absentee ballots in Fulton County alone, of 11,350 votes, or more than 80 percent of Biden's lead in Georgia.

In a summary of his study, Lott also wrote that he applied the same methodology to Allegheny County in Pennsylvania, claiming that the estimated number of fraudulent votes from these two sources is about 55,270.

In the story, Lott wrote that the estimates here suggest 70,000 to 79,000 "excess votes" in Georgia and Pennsylvania. When adding Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, the total increases to up to 289,000 in excess votes.

He argued that county estimates for Georgia and Pennsylvania suggest that voter fraud may be responsible for Biden's victory in both states, claiming that voter-turnout data also suggests that there are significant "excess votes" in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin.

Peter Navarro, who works as an adviser to President Trump, also shared Lott's study in a recent tweet, in which he argued for a postponement of Georgia's Senate runoff in light of the study's findings.

Navarro recently published his own report on the integrity of the 2020 elections, claiming that the allegations of irregularities were serious enough to warrant an urgent investigation and substantial enough to potentially overturn the result.

The findings of Navarro's report, "The Immaculate Deception," published on December 17, supports the claim that the election may have very well been stolen from Trump. Navarro, the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy director, produced the report in his private capacity.

Navarro argued it was not a single "silver bullet" of electoral irregularities that contributed to Trump's unfavorable outcome, but the theft of a thousand cuts across six dimensions and six battlegrounds.

In a phone call with reporters in which Navarro explained his findings, he declined to name a proposed cure, other than a thorough investigation. Furthermore, he said that the last thing this country needs is an inauguration day when we have a United States president who is perceived as illegal and illegitimate.

Navarro called for an urgent investigation into the allegations, arguing that if there is indeed compelling evidence the election was stolen after Biden's inauguration, we as a country run the genuine risk that the center of our great American union will not hold.

Navarro's report examines six types of irregularities in battlegrounds in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, where Biden's lead is certified and where voting remains hotly contested.

Navarro said the pattern of irregularities in the six states suggests a coordinated strategy to strategically manipulate the election process, to jam the ballot box, and unfairly tip the playing field towards the Biden-Harris ticket.

He argues that the weight of evidence, which comes from more than 50 lawsuits and court decisions, thousands of affidavits and statements, testimony in various fields, analysis by think tanks, and press reports, is more than enough to sway the outcome in President Trump's favor.

Biden's lead in every battleground state except Michigan is smaller than the number of votes Navarro calls possibly illegal.

Since Election Day, Trump and other groups have launched legal challenges to the outcome in the six battlegrounds, none of which has borne fruit.

State election officials, the Justice Department, and others have fought back against claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, while the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has called the November 3 election the safest in American history shortly before it was revealed that widespread nationwide infrastructure hacking had been going on for months before the 2020 election.