Statistical Tools For Detecting Electoral Fraud

Posted by Unknown on Monday October 1, 2012 @12:05PM from the chechens-for-putin dept.

RockDoctor writes "A recent paper published in PNAS describes statistical techniques for clearly displaying the presence of two types of electoral fraud (PDF) — 'incremental fraud' (stuffing of ballot boxes containing genuine votes with ballots for the winning party) and 'extreme fraud' (reporting completely contrived numbers, typically 100% turnout for a vote-counting region, with 100% voting for the winning party). While the techniques would require skill with statistical software to apply in real time, the graphs produced in the paper provide tools for the interested non-statistician to monitor an election 'live.' Examples are discussed with both 'normal' elections, fraud by the techniques mentioned, and cases of genuine voter inhomogeneity. Other types of fraud, such as gerrymandering and inhibiting the registration of minority voters, are not considered."

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Well by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-01 12:10 · Score: 5, Funny

We can't have that. Who do we call to get this outlawed?
1. Re:Well by Chrisq · 2012-10-01 20:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  We can't have that. Who do we call to get this outlawed?
  I'm not sure about that, perhaps we should take a vote on it.
Re:Statistical tools??? by metacell · 2012-10-01 20:45 · Score: 3, Funny

In the USA, the state declares fraud on YOU.