Benford's Law

[eve11]

Deviation from Benford's Law is not proof of election fraud. The above article does a good job of explaining this: the bounds on precinct populations and counties do not span the orders of magnitude needed for the logarithmic distribution of first digits to take effect.

Comments

[nonelvis]

That was really interesting! I've never heard of Benford's Law, and it's fascinating that this kind of distribution even exists.

[eve11]

There is a cool episode of the show "Connections" on Netflix that talks about Benford's Law.