First,
I use computer simulations to develop the theoretical foundation of election forensics and
improve on existing methods. Forensic tools have focused on finding symptoms that
could be caused by fraud. But just as a headache could be caused by a number of
different ailments, irregularities in the data could be caused by fraud or a number of other
factors. With a more complete theory of how fraud changes patterns in the data we may
uncover the actual cause of observed irregularities and relax the assumptions made in
previous work.