That data has total votes (integer) and %trump %biden. People have calculated the trump/biden vote totals but this adds fractions because the % is so low precision.
So here's an example entry from edison Michigan data:
votes: 5372494
bidenj: 0.498
trumpd: 0.486
5372494 * 0.498 = 2,675,502.012 biden votes.
But the actual machine has some count for Biden and Trump votes. It's adding them together to get 5372494 and percentages, but rounding down the percents from like 20-digit fractions to 3 digit. That's where the 0.xxx decimals come from.
I hope that's not where the fractions come from, because they'd be a smoking gun if taken directly off the machine, but I suspect it is.
Who designs a vote report that inputs percentages and total vote and multiplies them to yield the vote allocated to candidates? That makes NO SENSE at all. Votes are whole numbers. The input should be the total allocated votes, and total votes. The output can then be the calculated percentages. They are doing it ass backwards for what reason?
Only thing I can fathom is really severe memory limitations, either in the machines themselves or the idiot programmer that doesn't remember this is the worst thing to do.
What if your bank atm worked this way, with total money existing in the world and your bank account total percentage?
I hope you're right. Affidavit says excerpt from "direct feed to news outlets" and percents, eevp look the same as appears in edison.
These kinds of software are generally written by idiots and sometimes they do dumb crap like calculate the votes for display from total and percent internally because they are idiots. Why tf would they do this when they have the candidate votes right there? Well they have to do a database query or some bullshit and nobody is ever going to evaluate their work.
People think programmers are smart, but I worked with a bunch of programmers who couldn't tie their shoes.
So you're saying that it could take the individual totals against the overall total to get a percentage, then use that percentage to get less precise individual counts instead of just keeping the counts it already has? That doesn't make sense either. It HAS to have the exact individual totals, no reason to convert them to floating point numbers.
A lot of software does not make sense. Some display function gets passed the database, total vote, candidate percent array.
Programmer is told to display the vote total for each candidate. It's a total pain in the ass to do a loop, go to the database for each candidate and get the candidate total, divide by the overall total, and print it out.
Instead they just overall total * percent.
Guys I hope they took these numbers directly from the database and it's totally legit. I'm just saying this kind of bullshit happens all the time in software.
I hope this isn't from edison data.
That data has total votes (integer) and %trump %biden. People have calculated the trump/biden vote totals but this adds fractions because the % is so low precision.
Can you expand on that a bit? I'm not sure what you're saying but I'm interpreting it as you think this might not be a result of vote fraud?
So here's an example entry from edison Michigan data:
votes: 5372494
bidenj: 0.498
trumpd: 0.486
5372494 * 0.498 = 2,675,502.012 biden votes.
But the actual machine has some count for Biden and Trump votes. It's adding them together to get 5372494 and percentages, but rounding down the percents from like 20-digit fractions to 3 digit. That's where the 0.xxx decimals come from.
I hope that's not where the fractions come from, because they'd be a smoking gun if taken directly off the machine, but I suspect it is.
edit: fix math
Why doesn't edison just report 2,675,502 Biden and 2,696,992 Trump?
I have no idea. Could be so retarded web sites can display a percent without using any scripts, could be to obfuscate who knows.
Agreed. If the whole point of your machine is to count votes, the variable of that count should be an integer.
Thanks. I suspect you're right and this is another rabbit hole we're going down.
Who designs a vote report that inputs percentages and total vote and multiplies them to yield the vote allocated to candidates? That makes NO SENSE at all. Votes are whole numbers. The input should be the total allocated votes, and total votes. The output can then be the calculated percentages. They are doing it ass backwards for what reason?
Either an idiot or an evil genius.
Only thing I can fathom is really severe memory limitations, either in the machines themselves or the idiot programmer that doesn't remember this is the worst thing to do.
What if your bank atm worked this way, with total money existing in the world and your bank account total percentage?
I hope you're right. Affidavit says excerpt from "direct feed to news outlets" and percents, eevp look the same as appears in edison.
These kinds of software are generally written by idiots and sometimes they do dumb crap like calculate the votes for display from total and percent internally because they are idiots. Why tf would they do this when they have the candidate votes right there? Well they have to do a database query or some bullshit and nobody is ever going to evaluate their work.
People think programmers are smart, but I worked with a bunch of programmers who couldn't tie their shoes.
So you're saying that it could take the individual totals against the overall total to get a percentage, then use that percentage to get less precise individual counts instead of just keeping the counts it already has? That doesn't make sense either. It HAS to have the exact individual totals, no reason to convert them to floating point numbers.
A lot of software does not make sense. Some display function gets passed the database, total vote, candidate percent array.
Programmer is told to display the vote total for each candidate. It's a total pain in the ass to do a loop, go to the database for each candidate and get the candidate total, divide by the overall total, and print it out.
Instead they just overall total * percent.
Guys I hope they took these numbers directly from the database and it's totally legit. I'm just saying this kind of bullshit happens all the time in software.
It says in the affidavit that it's the data right from dominion