Preview of time-stamps against Benford's Law
The 2018 Municipal Elections showed prospects by Ward, for Benford's Law to be applied on time-stamp in-election machine logs of both optical scanners and vendor voting kiosks of total seconds not less then 100 seconds apart (statistical resolution), charted per Ward.
However promising, a much larger data pool would be required for testing and confidence on Benford's Law usability in help with identifying possible election fraud whether that be flipping the vote internally in swing States, Voting machine hackability to any number of other concerns with technology vulnerabilities.
The goal of the release of in-election machine logs is to further investigate with a substantially greater data set than what was released for municipal elections.
While the goal is to demonstrate Benford's Law usability, because of privacy and secrecy in protecting voters, such study goes without a control pool. However time-stamp data in general as been studied to be useful with Benford's Law as written here: https://kottke.org/06/02/catching-cheaters-with-benfords-lawFind the attached FOIA requests (2) sent out today.
Preview of time-stamps against Benford's Law