Why would voting counts not be stored as whole numbers instead of a decimal number?

Smartmatic was founded as a small software company 👉 in Boca Raton, Florida, in 1999 by three Venezuelan engineers 👈— Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate. The company didn’t begin as a voting machine maker, however; the founders developed networking applications for sharing data across devices.

In 2004, the company’s focus suddenly shifted to elections, however, when Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was facing a recall referendum to oust him from office. Six months before the recall vote, despite having no experience or expertise in voting machines, the National Electoral Council awarded a $91 million contract to Smartmatic and Bizta, another firm owned by Mugica and his father, to develop touchscreen voting machines to replace the country’s existing optical-scan machines before the referendum vote. The optical-scan machines were made by a U.S. company — Election Systems and Software — and Chávez, long an adversary of the U.S., did not trust the systems or the U.S. company.

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In 2012, Smartmatic moved its headquarters from Florida to the UK (though it still has offices in the U.S.) and began to expand its business in Europe, Latin America and the Philippines. (though it still has offices in the U.S.) and began to expand its business in Europe, Latin America and the Philippines.

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/voting-machine-company-involved-in-bribing-scandal-has-long-history-of-controversy/