Comment by IAmGraydon
1 year ago
>It would be interesting to look for patterns in a (presumably) fair election like the recent British one for comparison.
Someone should run this same analysis on all the election data they can get their hands on. Who knows what might be found.
There were some pretty shit analysises of the 2020 US elections that Matt Parker covered with videos like "Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's law?"[1] and "Why was Biden's win calculated to be 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000?"[2].
I don't know about other countries, but the amount of data that every county in every US state produces makes systematic fraud pretty much impossible. If there's literally only 3 numbers produced by the Venezuelan government, you need to be seriously incompetent to have detectable fraud because techniques like Benford's or Zipf's law need lots of individual numbers.
[1]: https://youtu.be/etx0k1nLn78
[2]: https://youtu.be/ua5aOFi-DKs
Those are really well done, not to mention hilarious. Thanks for sharing.