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2terms3scoops 3 points ago +4 / -1

because the most common number of votes was in between 1 and 2 hundred, the ward sizes are all somewhat consistent so this is a pretty bad application of benfords and a waste of energy. I ran the Clinton numbers from 16 and they showed the same thing, but when you look at the vote counts it makes sense, the democrats tend to get 4-600 votes per ward while trump got about 1-200 in each. Benfords should only be used when you have a mix of values with different orders of magnitude: ie some in the 10's, some in the 1000's and some in the 100,000,000's.

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amopheldupsidedown 1 point ago +1 / -0

Pretty good work, but, keep in mind that comparing to 2016 for validation assumes 2016 was without fraud.