In California recall election, candidate pushes baseless fraud claims

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I edited the title somewhat to take the focus off party politics and put it on what I think is interesting to HN readers: a website making statistical claims about the result of an election that hasn't been counted yet (poll close tomorrow evening).

This is the website in question, asserting that Benford's law shows evidence of fraud in the election results: https://stopcafraud.com/

The website you linked doesn't even list any evidence supporting its claim that "statistical patterns of voting fraud can be detected", not to mention the "easily reproducible" part. It only has a single page, claiming that there is fraud and asking users to fill forms.

Perhaps the supporting evidence was stolen at the same time as the election. Time travel is rife with such paradoxes.

Seriously though, the glaring lack of information and supporting evidence is kinda the point, along with the fact that this allegation precedes the calculation or publication of any results.

> Seriously though, the glaring lack of information and supporting evidence is kinda the point

Yeah that's the point.

I would say, instead of blaming Trump for punching a hole in the cornerstone of democracy, it just demonstrated how fragile the system already is. So many people are already eagerly ready to do that to win. Trump only dog-whistled them by doing so as president.

Fraud claim is in point #4. See also http://web.archive.org/web/20210913230829/https://stopcafrau...

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