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"This is how even a cursory look at the data alert you to human made up numbers."

I've never heard of "Benford's Law" but I can see how it could come about. I would imagine that it applies only to complete numbers. If you examine a large enough list of random numbers drawn from the range from, let's say, 0 to 999,999 then I would expect that the least significant digit would be distributed evenly; that is, there would be the same amount of each of the ten digits.

I believe that somebody reported that one state had too many precincts reporting totals that ended in "00". That would be very hard to explain unless humans were involved in picking the numbers.

If you examine a large enough list of random numbers drawn from the range from, let's say, 0 to 999,999 then I would expect that the least significant digit would be distributed evenly; that is, there would be the same amount of each of the ten digits.

Except these numbers aren't randomly pulled from a list, they count, and they count up. Therefore EVERY count will start with a '1' at some point, but not every count will end up reaching a '9' for the same power of ten you end the counting in. That's why this works, if you start counting and are stopped randomly (what voting is, basically) every power of ten of votes (10, 100s, 1000s, 10Ms, 100Ms, 1MMs, so on) will fill in every chance to start with a '1', and each higher digit will be less likely to have been reached, but once you hit the XX999 and give each number an even chance to have been the final starting digit, the next count will go back to starting with a 1 and make that the most likely starting digit.

EG for your random result to be, say, 328, you will have had the opportunity to stop at 111 '1's (1, 10-19, and 100-199), 111 '2's (2, 20-29, 200-299), but only 39 '3's (3, 30-39, 300-328), and 0 '4'-'9's. Any 'random' number you pick, will always fill in the lower numbers' possibilities, but not the higher ones.