Uniandes EPISTEME 8(4), pp. 594-605.
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Note - this is a foreign language paper: SPA
Abstract: Several investigations have been conducted for decades on financial fraud, electoral fraud, among others, through Benford's law who evidences that the first digits of numbers from different databases have a distribution that repeat consistently when random and that this distribution does not hold true when the data is manipulated. In the financial sector, this is important evidence to infer the possible existence of fraud and therefore a forensic audit should be initiated immediately. The authors accessed, systematized and analyzed two databases between Sunday, March 24 and Tuesday, March 26, 2019; the first through an electoral control process of 35,149 valid votes on election day and the second of 133,713 valid votes on post-election days through the National Electoral Council portal. The article demonstrates that the results of the candidates for mayor of Quito DM that occupied the first four places and null votes were not random while in the case of other candidates and white votes that, although they obtained a lower amount of votes, did comply with random distributions.
Bibtex:
@article{,
author = {Corrales, Edgar Ernesto Lascano and Quiroga, Gustavo Vega},
title = {Relación de la ley de Benford con resultados en elecciones seccionales de la alcaldía del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito en 2019},
year = {2021},
journal = {Uniandes EPISTEME},
volume = {8},
number = {4},
pages = {594—605},
issn = {1390–9150},
url = {https://revista.uniandes.edu.ec/ojs/index.php/EPISTEME/article/view/2369},
}
Reference Type: Journal Article
Subject Area(s): Voting Fraud