As I'm understanding it, I think when people are using Benford's law with the voting data, I think they're using the incremental increases of votes over time.
So like, 123,811 votes come in. then 45231 votes come in, then 23,401 votes come in, etc.
So the leading digit for these would be (1) (4) (2)
I saw a comment somewhere saying, human nature (an outside influence) is more apt to choose a number in the middle of 1-9 because it may seem more "random" to a person, but this goes against benford's law.
As I'm understanding it, I think when people are using Benford's law with the voting data, I think they're using the incremental increases of votes over time.
So like, 123,811 votes come in. then 45231 votes come in, then 23,401 votes come in, etc.
So the leading digit for these would be (1) (4) (2)
I saw a comment somewhere saying, human nature (an outside influence) is more apt to choose a number in the middle of 1-9 because it may seem more "random" to a person, but this goes against benford's law.