Does anyone know if that Benford's law thing has a source to the raw data that was used? I know the law and if it's true it provides almost rock solid evidence of fraud but I feel like the whole thing may have been misinformation because there was no way to actually get to the source data that I could find. The only one source I found was on some sketchy amazon cloud server where I really couldn't verify the integrity.
Its good enough for the IRS, the EU, and others, it should be good enough for election data. I wasn't familiar with the law myself (I'm in condensed matter theory), but I just started looking at it and will play around with it a bit.
It seems that if benford's law gets more attention, its usefulness to detect fraud will diminish as more criminals will start incorporating it.
Does anyone know if that Benford's law thing has a source to the raw data that was used? I know the law and if it's true it provides almost rock solid evidence of fraud but I feel like the whole thing may have been misinformation because there was no way to actually get to the source data that I could find. The only one source I found was on some sketchy amazon cloud server where I really couldn't verify the integrity.
Its good enough for the IRS, the EU, and others, it should be good enough for election data. I wasn't familiar with the law myself (I'm in condensed matter theory), but I just started looking at it and will play around with it a bit.
It seems that if benford's law gets more attention, its usefulness to detect fraud will diminish as more criminals will start incorporating it.