A team of Austrian statisticians has published a paper revealing that, according to its new model, recent elections in Russia and Uganda were riddled with fraudulent voting practices.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focused on hunting down anomalies in regional voting patterns, rather than focusing on larger pools of data as is the usual trend. By focusing on regional activity, patterns clearly emerged indicating that when a high voter turnout in a specific area was combined with a high consensus for a particular candidate, more than a little ballot-fiddling had gone on -- namely, the introduction of large numbers of false votes and the destruction of real ones.
"We show that reported irregularities in recent Russian elections are, indeed, well-explained by systematic ballot stuffing," write the paper's authors. "Extreme fraud corresponds to reporting a complete turnout and almost all votes for a single party."
By: Liat Clark, Edited by: Ian Steadman
Continue reading...Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/26/russian-election-fraud
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