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Benfords law regarding election data needs to use the second digit analysis #30

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tehmikey opened this issue Nov 9, 2020 · 1 comment

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@tehmikey
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tehmikey commented Nov 9, 2020

Benford's first-digit analysis is intended to be used on data with several orders of magnitude, and hundreds of votes per precinct over hundreds of counties is not sufficient. For detecting voter fraud, you need to use the second-digit analysis.

The data presented in this project do not properly apply the law and are misleading.

https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/557850/Brown_georgetown_0076M_11716.pdf
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis/article/benfords-law-and-the-detection-of-election-fraud/3B1D64E822371C461AF3C61CE91AAF6D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Election_data

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This has been discussed, at length, in the open issues.

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