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To: carranza2 who wrote (731425)	11/8/2020 12:42:37 PM
From: skinowski	7 Recommendations of 793801

I think I’m beginning to understand it. If you take any series of naturally occurring numbers - and pay attention only to the first digit - the resulting frequency of occurrence for individual digits in the series must comply with the Benford law. If it doesn’t, that means the series of numbers did not occur “naturally, but was manipulated. At the end of the article in the tweet he gives a link for those who would like to do it themselves: kdnuggets.com Inside this article, there is a link to a wonderful little video from the Khan Academy, which explains Benford law youtu.be They even have a link to a Netflix series called “Connected” which has an episode (#4) on this subject. So, basically, they take a list of election vote reports from several districts - and check the frequency of appearance of digits in the first position. If the distribution follows the Benford law, the election is kosher.

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