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We ran a test for one of the problem sets in a course I was TAing. Raw vote counts did follow Benford's law in 2000 US presidential elections. We did not portra
by oceliker 10y ago
We ran a test for one of the problem sets in a course I was TAing. Raw vote counts did follow Benford's law in 2000 US presidential elections. We did not portray it as a tool to detect or disprove fraud, however.
- sampo 10y agoPerhaps the sizes (number of eligible voters, and also number of people who actually voted) of the voting districts follows the law? Then you could take the total vote counts, and distribute them back to the candidates in a lot of artificial ways (e.g. always 50-50, a random percentage between 30 and 70, say) and probably obtain data that still follows the law.