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It'd be nice to discuss whether the benford's law analysis can be reasonably applied to election returns, but any mention of it is flagged by the thought police.


Is it flagged? Mostly, I think people just don't care that much because Benford's law is a curious pattern that applies to some kinds of numbers some of the time, so it's interesting as a first diagnostic of fraud, but without an argument of why it applies to this particular kind of data, and without further investigation of what might be causing the irregularity, it's not a smoking gun by any means.

See also https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response/what-the-electi...


Thanks for the link.

There was a good post here with a link to all of the meme'ing trump claims of statistical anomalies (benford's law, turnout numbers, president vs senate party differences, etc.). Was going to reply to it but upon submitting it was gone / flagged.




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