Ban Fractional Voting
The fact that the database' underlying the tabulation system can track fractional votes — and that a programmer can abuse the underlying database to produce new results — is a side effect of the way computers store numbers.
Someone can change the final tally of the election to give one candidate a win by a very specific percentage of the vote, to two decimal places, and it still counts as actual, because those will either rounded up or down, so the decimal places are not purely for computer use. The database uses fractional people — say, a ballot counting for 0.49 votes, or a ballot counting for 1.02 votes — to reach that desired outcome. There is no reason the database should allow for a fraction of a ballot to be counted.
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