I saw some of the transmission output of one of the voting machines and was questioning on an FR thread about why it was necessary for it to have NINE places to the RIGHT of the decimal point. There is no reason for such precision in a discrete count as counting and reporting votes. One person, one vote, not fractional votes, ever, yet these Diebold voting machines were reporting votes to NINE decimal places. The ONLY reason I could come up with was the same as was simply demonstrated with the two decimal place example, vote count fraud via rounding errors.
A proper voting machine should have ZERO decimal places and only report integer numbers. One person, one vote for each issue and each race.
This is deliberate.
Perhaps, rather than using rounding errors to alter the vote, they are using the decimal places for the tallies or for a code.
Example: 7.00032 could tell the aggregator program to add 32 votes instead of 7. Or 00032 could be a code to do X, Y, or Z. XYZ could be “tally as is”, “add N number of votes”, multiply tally by M”, etc, etc.
Concur.