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Russian elections once again had a suspiciously neat result
- azalemeth 5y ago> "Whereas normal data would show no obvious pattern" This isn't true. The distribution of digits in most elections (i.e. those with a large number of electors) follows Benford's law [1] -- the distribution isn't uniform; the number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30 % of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5 % of the time. In this case, the pattern is so outrageously obvious that you can see the spikes in the data as individual patterns of five like a grid popping out on the graph (or indeed a histogram, I'm sure). That, and all the CCTV videos of people shoving ballot papers in the box after the election had closed... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
- pbaka 5y agoAre we still talking about Russia ? Is it an effect of globalization that I can't be sure which country you are talking about when mentionning voter fraud ?
- maxnoe 5y agoNo, voting counts so not normally follow a benfords law distribution. Relevant Matt Parker video: https://youtu.be/etx0k1nLn78 https://youtu.be/etx0k1nLn78
- dcgudeman 5y agohttps://archive.is/uPsEC https://archive.is/uPsEC