---------------------------------------------------Chaos reigns on Iowa caucus night
By Kathryn Watson, Melissa Quinn
Updated on: February 4, 2020 / 3:22 AM / CBS News
Chaos reigns on Iowa caucus night
By Kathryn Watson, Melissa Quinn
Updated on: February 4, 2020 / 3:22 AM / CBS News
As Monday turned into Tuesday, there was no victor in Iowa. There weren't even any official results.
As the campaigns came to learn, the Iowa Democratic Party found "inconsistencies" in reporting the three sets of results it promised to deliver. The information was to come from precinct captains, who were to report it through a newly developed app. But they ran into trouble as caucuses finished.
"In addition to the tech systems being used to tabulate results, we are also using photos of results and a paper trail to validate that all results match and ensure that we have confidence and accuracy in the numbers we report," the Iowa Democratic Party said in a statement. "The underlying data and paper trail is sound and will simply take time to further report the results."
Early Tuesday, the Iowa Democratic Party chair said results will be provided "later today," although he did not specify what time. Price said he wanted to emphasize this is a "reporting issue, not a hack" and "this is why we have a paper trail."
Earlier, a backup option for precinct captains to report caucus results — a hotline — ran into its own issues.
When CBS News attempted to call the Iowa Democratic Party Caucus Hotline, a recorded message said, "Thank you for calling the Iowa Democratic Party's Caucus Hotline. All of our operators are currently busy. Your call will be answered in the order in which it was received. We look forward to talking to you soon," before playing hold music.
https://www.latimes.com/business/techno ... -app-snafu
Tech firm started by Clinton campaign veterans is linked to Iowa caucus debacle
"The app that was intended to relay caucus results to the party failed; the party's back-up telephonic reporting system likewise has failed," Remus wrote to the chair and executive director of the Iowa Democratic Party "Now, we understand that caucus chairs are attempting to — and, in many cases, failing to — report results telephonically to the party. These acute failures are occurring statewide."
By Jeff Bercovici, Melanie Mason
Feb. 4, 2020
7:51 AM
An app created by a tech firm run by veterans of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign is taking heat for the unprecedented delay in reporting Democratic caucus results from Iowa.
Results from Monday’s caucuses could not be transmitted to Iowa party headquarters, and state Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price blamed the problem on a coding error. “While our plan is to release results as soon as possible today, our ultimate goal is to ensure that the integrity and accuracy of the process continues to be upheld,” he said in a statement Tuesday morning.
Confusion among caucus organizers over how to use the app also seemed to contribute to the problem.
The firm behind the app reportedly is Shadow, an affiliate of ACRONYM, a Democratic nonprofit founded in 2017 “to educate, inspire, register, and mobilize voters,” according to its website. Shadow started out as Groundbase, a tech developer co-founded by Gerard Niemira and Krista Davis, who worked for the tech team on Clinton’s campaign for the 2016 Democratic nomination.
show. but can we ascribe to malevolence what can be accounted for by incompetence?...... wait..... what if they're in equal proportions???.....
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