The 2004 Venezuela referendum is proved to be fraudulent without using the Benford distribution (it is not a law). On that election the opposition votes where i

The 2004 Venezuela referendum is proved to be fraudulent without using the Benford distribution (it is not a law). On that election the opposition votes where invented based on the number of signatures requesting the recall vote per voting table, yet these same votes follow Benford quite well. On the other hand the government votes not only not follow the Benford distribution but have a flat (uniform) distribution. What I am trying to say is that the Benford distribution is very useful, but it is not a definite proof of anything. It can point you to where you should dig deeper. For more info about the 2004 Venezuela fraudulent election see: http://esdata.info/pdf/medina-es.pdf http://esdata.info/pdf/medina-es.pdf (Spanish) http://esdata.info/papers http://esdata.info/papers