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1,2,3 digit Benford plots for Texas (2020 to 1992 presidential elections) using county aggregated counts #41

Open bd271828 opened 3 years ago

bd271828 commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/bd271828/2020_election/tree/main/plot/tx

zsh commented 3 years ago

what's the conclusion from your charts?

bd271828 commented 3 years ago

I think it is interesting to see the 1BL plots across the candidates, parties, and outcomes. This is probably not surprising given the so-called spread in counts many have alluded to. No conclusions at the moment and at best only an empirical point of reference.

bd271828 commented 3 years ago

To follow-up. FWIW (not to be political), given all the chatter about Dominion, the voting systems used in Texas are: Election Systems & Software and Hart Intercivic (majority) + a few Premier Election Solutions [1]

We can see the usage from the certification reports [2]. As most are probably already aware of, we also see Dominion was denied on multiple occasions [3].

[1] https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/sysexam/voting-sys-bycounty.pdf [2] https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/certinfobyvendor.shtml [3] https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/dominion.shtml