> "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

> "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