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14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2020-11-06 · latest 2020-11-09

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  1. This is the relevant investigation https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
  2. …the whole story. I don't see the Milwaukee data in this repo, but take a look at the Chicago data: https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords/blob/main/data/chi... Biden's vote totals are solidly contained within one order of magnitude, the…
  3. https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords/issues/9 for more context.
  4. …More on that here: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=46343 See GitHub for sources and charts. https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
  5. https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
  6. …out that the distribution is not wide enough to expect Benford's law to hold even in principle https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords/issues/9 The underlying issue is that vote counts are tallied over regions whose size and population…
    comment by yorwba · 2020-11-07 · in Violating the Benford's Law
  7. …and code. It's all open source. I find it very convincing but that's just me. Do your own analysis https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
    comment by aapl88888 · 2020-11-07 · in Violating the Benford's Law
  8. You can analyze the data yourself. There are sources and python scripts included https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
    comment by aapl88888 · 2020-11-07 · in Violating the Benford's Law
  9. Github code: https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
  10. Check the issues as well https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords/issues/3
    comment by dice1-6 · 2020-11-07 · in 2020 Benfords
  11. …properly “debunk” this yet. The guy uploaded the code (and ran it on some other states) here: https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords