>data type
maybe only a coincidence, but a variable data type change was the subject of exhibit 4 in King v. Whitmer, pg. 11, the controversial last-minute software update to the ballot marking device, ImageCast X version 5.5.10.32
integer to string, not integer/floating-point, however. discussion of this change occupied the majority of this exhibit
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.18.pdf