I’ve been meaning to write a quick note about the paper that Walter Mebane (Cornell University) presented at the recent Midwest Political Science Association conference, “Detecting Attempted Election Theft: Vote Counts, Voting Machines and Benford’s Law”. Turns out that Walter’s paper has been pretty well summarized on the “Social Science Statistics Blog”, so I won’t write much more about it now, other than to say that Walter is going to present this line of research at the election fraud workshop that Thad and I are organizing for late September. More on that workshop later …

However, I will point out that Walter is one of the most prolific social scientists studying election fraud, anomalies and problems since the 2000 presidential election. Take a look at Walter’s website, where he has archived his working and published papers.