In 2012, I wrote several posts on the irregularities in voting distributions after the Duma elections. There were many scientists with a strong background in statistics applied in physics, and I am not the best among them. The outcome of numerous studies revealing various types of potential falsifications as expressed in voting irregularities is well known - the Russian elections are more open and better organized. For example, Navalny lost the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections with 27% of votes.
The 2020 US elections were criticized by many statisticians from the same position of statistical irregularities in the voting results and timing of major changes. I have no access to voting data sets to analyze them in the same way as I did in 2012. Hope they will be open and published for deeper analysis by the statistical community. On the other hand, the results of such studies are highly likely to be banned by the Big Tech and the US universities have a propensity to fire professors and researchers not following their ideology.
I have a strong feeling that statistics as a discipline is in danger in the US. If it does not study the voting irregularities is loses its own credibility. If it will study the irregularities - the statisticians may suffer undeserved punishment. Zugzwang.
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