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One of the many election fraud claims made by President Donald Trump in a desperate attempt to deny the results of the election he lost to Democratic challenger Joe Biden in 2020 was that he (Trump) won the state of Michigan (which he actually lost to Biden by 150,000 votes) -- but voter fraud in the state was rampant, as supposedly evidenced by the city of Detroit's recording a number of voters greater than the number of eligible voters living in that city: As with many similar Trump claims about election fraud, this one was easily disproved by simply referencing the relevant statistics. According to the City of Detroit's website, that area was home to 504,714 registered voters in 2020, of whom 250,138 (i.e., just less than half) cast ballots in that year's general election: Furthermore, none of these voting statistics is inconsistent with the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimates for Detroit. As other reports noted, Trump appeared to be misunderstanding the concept of out-of-balance precincts, which had little to no effect on the outcome of the presidential race in Michigan:
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