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Professor Steven Miller issues legal statement suggesting PA ballot irregularities; conclusions repudiated by statisticians, political scientists

Professor of Mathematics Steven Miller submitted a sworn court declaration on Nov. 21 that suggested the possibility of serious ballot irregularities in Pennsylvania. Over the previous week, Miller had written several iterations of the declaration, which first circulated on conservative media on Nov. 17. Since then, President Donald J. Trump amplified the statement in a tweet, the Chairman of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) referenced the statement as indicative of fraud, and a conservative group prominently featured it in a legal brief seeking to overturn the Pennsylvania election results.

By Samuel Wolf, Managing Editor | November 25, 2020