Electoral fraud prevented Trump victory in 2020 - study --The Heartland Institute claimed fraudulent mail-in votes swung the presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden | 11 Feb 2024 | Mail-in ballot fraud "significantly" impacted the 2020 U.S. presidential election, handing Joe Biden his victory, according to a study published by conservative think tank the Heartland Institute on Friday. "Had the 2020 election been conducted like every national election has been over the past two centuries, wherein the vast majority of voters cast ballots in-person rather than by mail, Donald Trump would have almost certainly been re-elected," the report stated, citing survey data collected in December. "As many as 28.2% of mail-in voters potentially committed some form of fraud, acting in ways that were “under most circumstances, illegal," the institute's data suggested.