Election Forensics: Vote Counts and Benford's Law¶
Mebane, Jr., W. R. (2006). Election Forensics: Vote Counts and Benford's Law: Vote Counts and Benford's Law.
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- Paradox of Unanimity
- In election and voting forensics, near-unanimous reported results in adversarial contexts function as evidence against legitimacy.
This sourceSecond-digit Benford's-law tests treat anomalous digit distributions in reported vote counts as quantitative signatures of fraud/irregularity, so suspiciously clean or anomalous near-unanimous returns count as evidence against legitimacy.
- In election and voting forensics, near-unanimous reported results in adversarial contexts function as evidence against legitimacy.
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