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Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by Bedgeseb on Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:43PM (#25030959)
Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by timtylin on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:36PM (#25031230)
The more I think about it, the more I believe Benford's Law can be violated too easily within more urban areas, especially when precinct sizes are artificially limited to a fixed size (500~1000 people) without geographically-induced truncations. As long as voter turnout is consistently above 10-20%, with the 2-party system you're simply not going to get the vote count number to span the several magnitudes needed to induce Benford's Law. (Exception of course for smaller/independent candidates, and perhaps if one of the major candidates really sucked and kept getting 10% of the votes)
Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by mikexstudios on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:57PM (#25031318)