In the aftermath of my Benford’s Law election fraud video, two common responses stood out:

- Why did you look at data from Chicago and not a swing state?

- What about this video from an MIT PhD? It uses math to prove election tampering in Michigan.

I looked at Chicago data because I reused data picked by proponents of the election-fraud theory. When debunking I try to analyse exactly the same data set as the original claim.

But I accept it resulted in an easy (and pretty valid) criticism if my methods (if not the result).

Secondly I watch Dr Shiva’s 70 minute video, found the data they used and then pulled it apart.

Spoiler: it’s not evidence of election fraud. It’s a simple (and fundamental) maths mistake hidden by layers of unnecessary technical language and plots.

But it was data from swing counties in swing states. And I found the mistake itself (as well as the process of analysing it) super fascinating. So I made another video.



(Really hope it’s my last election data video!)

And hopefully my video is impartial enough to change some minds. From the YouTube comments already, that seems to be the case.

So please do share it wherever you see Dr Shiva’s video being spread. I’ll put out a stand-alone tweet later if that is easier to use.