No it won't. Benford's only applies to systems where humans are directly selecting digits in a (futile) attempt to mimic a natural system.
Ballot counts, even fraudulent ones, is a process of enumeration. This being played like the global warming academic paper scam. Presume (don't prove) catastrophic warming and write pretty (but irrelevant) papers about what happens when temperatures rise.
In this case, skip over "Benfords doesn't apply" and go on to make pretty graphs of cherry picked data sets that just happen (coin toss) to make Trump's look more conformant.
No it won't. Benford's only applies to systems where humans are directly selecting digits in a (futile) attempt to mimic a natural system.
Ballot counts, even fraudulent ones, is a process of enumeration. This being played like the global warming academic paper scam. Presume (don't prove) catastrophic warming and write pretty (but irrelevant) papers about what happens when temperatures rise.
In this case, skip over "Benfords doesn't apply" and go on to make pretty graphs of cherry picked data sets that just happen (coin toss) to make Trump's look more conformant.