With Benford's law "the leading digits of the number found in real-world data sets" should make sense. But this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoF3WS42w3M&ab_channel=RobertA.Bonavito%2CCPA
claims that by applying Benford's law they can prove electoral fraud.
He claims that since Benford's law is "broken" in these graphs, it appears that there has been fraud committed, but I wonder if the artificiality of breaking things into counties and only having 156 of them violates the "naturally occuring" idea that is the foundation of Benford's Law.
I am curious why Benford's law does not seem to apply here.
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