After declaring an election winner, the question of whether the outcome truly reflects what people have voted rises among skeptics of the democratic process. To assure that all the  elements involved in the election process are infallible and no fraudulent activity has taken place is still questionable. Furthermore, even if those elements were actually present, could their profusion could make a significant impact in selection of an undeserving candidate? In this project we aim to answer all these questions by analyzing the impacts of different fraudulent activities on the election system by simulating a mock election, based on the United States Presidential electoral system. Our target is to build a simulated election that would contain a mixture of fraudulent events to help us analyze the fraud detection methods such as Benford’s law and Risk-limiting audits.

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