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stat.AP2018★ 14 cited
Putin's peaks: Russian election data revisited
Dmitry Kobak, Sergey Shpilkin, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov
We study the anomalous prevalence of integer percentages in the last parliamentary (2016) and presidential (2018) Russian elections. We show how this anomaly in Russian federal ele…
stat.AP2014★ 33 cited
Integer percentages as electoral falsification fingerprints
Dmitry Kobak, Sergey Shpilkin, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov
We hypothesize that if election results are manipulated or forged, then, due to the well-known human attraction to round numbers, the frequency of reported round percentages can be…