2020 vs 2024 Chicago: Assessment of In-Election Machine Logs Ballot Scan Count Checks and Benford’s Law Analysis

Significant anomalies are identified under both analyses in both election cycles, but the two elections present qualitatively different signatures. The 2020 logs show temporal irregularities consistent with log-level manipulation --- batch insertion, timestamp regularization, or post-hoc log editing --- reflected in an 10% Benford deviation. The 2024 logs show hardware/record-level scan inflation (a 21.75% failed-scan rate and a 2.41:1 total-scan-to-certified-ballot ratio), combined with an atypically low Benford deviation of 4% that suggests a synthetic component calibrated to appear statistically normal. In neither cycle do the machine logs constitute a self-certifying record.

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Published 2026-06-06 23:19 | Updated 2026-06-07 00:26