I wonder if the first digits comform to Benford's Law. Basically, the first digits of the vote counts should be 1, 2, 3 much more often than they should be 7, 8, 9
I think this article from 538 does a much better job covering the subject than the original one, who's methodology is questionable.
Indeed. It's quite non-intuitive, but the naive assumption that the last digits are randomly distributed is simply wrong. Here is a V.I. Arnold essay about Benford's Law: http://www.math.ru.nl/~mueger/arnold.pdf