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Have I understood this correctly? Most of the commenters, and far more importantly, most of the experts cited in answers, have said "Benford's Law is useless for detecting voting anomalies." You are citing an expert who is slightly maverick in that he says "Benford's Law is sometimes useful for detecting voting anomalies", but he also says "In the 2020 US Elections, there are no Benford's Law-based anomalies."
– Oddthinking ♦
Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 4:54
The point is - even the guy who has used Benford's Law analysis to identify election fraud says that in this case, proper applications of BL analysis do not indicate any election fraud in 2020. This is very different from someone saying "Benford's Law cannot be used to identify fraud" in light of the fact that it has, actually been used to identify fraud in the past.
– user57628
Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 19:15
Cool. So I have understood it. I was rather confused by the sudden twist in the last paragraph.
– Oddthinking ♦
Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 19:23

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