In my new YouTube video (https://tinyurl.com/MaricopaAnalysis) I review the Maricopa County 2020 presidential election results on a precinct by precinct basis using Benford’s Law and a few other forensic analytics tests including correlation. At the end of the video I point viewers to the parts in my book where these tests are explained. The video description includes a link to a Dropbox folder (https://tinyurl.com/MaricopaFiles) that contains the Maricopa data, my Nigrini Cycle file, my PowerPoint slides, and the results that I copied into the Word file. The number of registered voters in the precincts did not conform to Benford’s Law and therefore my expectation was that the counts will also not conform. The fact that one of the candidates had a “closer” conformity to Benford’s Law should not be interpreted to mean that his numbers were “more correct.”
About Mark Nigrini
Mark J. Nigrini, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. Mark is the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Accounting Educator award of the West Virginia Society of CPAs. In his spare time, he enjoys overseas travelling, playing darts, listening to music, watching British television series, and walking 10,000 steps per day.
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