A. V. Podlazov, “Formal methods for detection of large-scale electoral fraud on the material of the federal elections 1999–2018”, Keldysh Institute preprints, 2019,002, 28 pp.

Formal methods for detection of large-scale electoral fraud on the material of the federal elections 1999–2018

A. V. Podlazov

Abstract: I offer 4 different tests for the detection of large-scale electoral fraud at the level of subjects of the federation. These tests bases only on official data on election results and do not use any assumptions about voter behavior or reference results.

Keywords: electoral statistics, election results, falsification of results, psychologically attractive numbers, greedy voting, clots of results, invalid ballots.

DOI: 10.20948/prepr-2019-2