Did you know Google, Inc. was a contributor to the latest US Government Election Results Common Data Format Specification?https://t.co/eQGez8tG28— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) November 13, 2020
It seems election votes are tallied then stored as a DOUBLE in JSON.
"can include a factional [sic] component in special cases" pic.twitter.com/S0IXV9qSV3— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) November 13, 2020
If it is proven that Dominion uses this standard in their machines, then that is proof that votes are stored ultimately as double length floating point numbers.— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) November 13, 2020
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Wouldn't you have to use decimals if you were going to be shifting a finite number of votes and don't want a rounding error?
I think the plot of the movie Office Space is that they found that financial rounding of currency meant that rounding resulted in unclaimed stash of pennies adding up to tens of thousands of dollars.
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IMO the answer is that the values are likely maintained, stored + transferred in DOUBLE PRECISION format. Aside from the standard(s) you get to a point where ultimately you need to accumulate extremely large numbers and that requires a DOUBLE to store the data in or process using.
Wouldn’t you have to use decimals if you were going to be shifting a finite number of votes and don’t want a rounding error?
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I am not techno smart. However, in the black box voting case, that I read about, what was found was that the program was set to simply show the whole numbers, so no one would know that there were decimals.
The program was preprogrammed to give a predetermined amount such as 51% to the preferred candidate. The man who discovered this, did not believe that it was possible to do it, but was asked to study the system and figure out how it was done or prove it wasn’t kinda thing.
I read about this in 2015, so my recollection is a bit vague.
in recesses of my mind, back in the day in chicago...some teller @ St. Paul Federal set up an account and siphoned cents from other deposits into his accounts.
This was back when the Lugans would stand in line every month to get their savings account books tamped showing the interest. Someone’s account didn’t balance...yep... and audit got the teller.
True or not? who knows...like I said, you’re dealing with my mind