What are the x and y axes in these plots? I assume the x-axis is time.
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Good question and the answer is not obvious.
The X axis is the sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
The dataset is the total votes from each of the Precincts in some geographical area.
The Y axis is the fraction of precincts where the first digit of their total vote is the X number.
So you look at the percentage of precincts where the vote total begins with a 1 and that point is plotted. Ditto for 2, 3, 4 and so on.
Amazingly, random data follows this law which predicts that 1 will be the most common and 9 will be least as shown on the plot.
When there is fraud the data does not follow that law.
Thanks. I didn’t know about that law.