Election 2020 Democratic Party IT Failure in Iowa leads to Caucus Chaos.

[PsihoKekec]

We might ask the same question the person who first put the pineapple on pizza.

 

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DES MOINES — Sean Bagniewski had seen the problems coming.
It wasn’t so much that the new app that the Iowa Democratic Party had planned to use to report its caucus results didn’t work. It was that people were struggling to even log in or download it in the first place. After all, there had never been any app-specific training for his many precinct chairs.
So last Thursday Mr. Bagniewski, the chairman of the Democratic Party in Polk County, Iowa’s most populous, decided to scrap the app entirely, instructing his precinct chairs to simply call in the caucus results as they had always done.
The only problem was, when the time came during Monday’s caucuses, those precinct chairs could not connect with party leaders via phone. Mr. Bagniewski instructed his executive director to take pictures of the results with her smartphone and drive over to the Iowa Democratic Party headquarters to deliver them in person. She was turned away without explanation, he said.
“I don’t even know if they know what they don’t know,” Mr. Bagniewski said of the state party shortly before 2 a.m. on Tuesday.
It was a surreal opening act for the 2020 campaign that included unexplained “inconsistencies” in results that were not released to the public, heated conference calls with campaigns that were hung up on by the state party, firm denials of any kind of hacking and a presidential primary left in a strange state of almost suspended animation.

“A systemwide disaster,” said Derek Eadon, a former Iowa Democratic Party chairman.

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[Arch Dornan]

Are they so much of a boomer they boomered the voting app?

 

[Tiamat]

We might ask the same question the person who first put the pineapple on pizza.

I resemble that remark!

 

[Airedale260]

Woopsie, you mean the same ones who said they were gonna burn down Des Moines if the "Bern" doesn't get elected...?

I can only wonder how the SB forums is reacting to all this...

Usual screaming about how terrible caucuses are, that it's a Russian hack, etc, etc, combined with complaints about Republicans...in other words, business as usual.

Though it seems like early indicators are pointing towards Bernie winning with Buttigieg in a strong second place.

 

[Tiamat]

In yet another “herp derp” for the DNC....

Nevada Dems planning to use similar app linked to Iowa caucus mess

The Nevada Democratic Party is planning to use an app similar to the one that contributed to reporting issues in the Iowa caucuses Monday, and it's paid a lot of money to the company that built the Iowa app.

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The GOP and Trump re-election campaign are trolling the hell out of this mess. To quote Ted Cruz, “the Democrats can’t even count votes and they wanna run healthcare?”

EDIT: So apparently the DHS has concerns about the Iowa voting app and wanted to test its security and other possible issues. They were refused/ignored by the Democrats....

 

[Tzeentchean Perspective]

In yet another “herp derp” for the DNC....

Nevada Dems planning to use similar app linked to Iowa caucus mess

The Nevada Democratic Party is planning to use an app similar to the one that contributed to reporting issues in the Iowa caucuses Monday, and it's paid a lot of money to the company that built the Iowa app.

www.foxnews.com

The GOP and Trump re-election campaign are trolling the hell out of this mess. To quote Ted Cruz, “the Democrats can’t even count votes and they wanna run healthcare?”

EDIT: So apparently the DHS has concerns about the Iowa voting app and wanted to test its security and other possible issues. They were refused/ignored by the Democrats....

Shadow Inc., a tech firm that describes itself as a group that creates "a permanent advantage for progressive campaigns and causes through technology," is the company that created the Iowa Democratic Party's app

Could this be any more suspect? With a name like Shadow inc, you immediately assume they have something suspicious to hide.

 

[Tiamat]

Could this be any more suspect? With a name like Shadow inc, you immediately assume they have something suspicious to hide.

And is it wrong with a name like Shadow Inc. I suddenly get vibes of the grand old RPG days of games with shadowy Mega-corps like Shadowrun and Cyberpunk...?

Pssst, hey Chummer, got a moment...?

 

[Isem]

Wasn't it the Democrats who had a lot of people yelling (at least online) about how voting machines were totally unsafe and unreliable and therefore the election was hacked? If they were then this is pretty ironic that their party managed to do worse then the voting machines.

 

[Cherico]

Wow.....this is an absolute public humiliation I mean damn.

 

[DarthOne]

I wonder how many people this is going to red pill...

 

[Tiamat]

Just to add to the bonfire....

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer roasted after accidentally adding to Iowa Caucus chaos: 'This is a clown show'

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer inadvertently contributed to the unprecedented delay in official vote totals from the critical Iowa Caucuses because he wanted to listen in on a precinct captain’s phone call with the Iowa Democratic Party.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Largo]

How on Earth you mess up something that has been going on for two centuries?

Because the Sanders group post-2016 demanded that a whole bunch of extra shit and reporting be added in the interests of making things more transparent and democratic and so on.

It's just so strange to see Democrats demanding new regulations without regard for how they might work for ordinary citizens and for those new rules to bungle everything up.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

It's just so strange to see Democrats demanding new regulations without regard for how they might work for ordinary citizens and for those new rules to bungle everything up.

TBF if your understanding of economics involves more contempt and theory rather than viewing the cause and effect yourself both on small and large scales, you can think you're doing good

It's just that turns out larger companies can handle more taxes and regulations better due to already being pretty established and policies that are supposed to hit only the "1%" hit guys who aren't Fiction 500 or able to so casually use money on large luxuries, perhaps because people don't realise a difference in wealth in-terms of property and quality and quantity of goods, materials, skills, working areas, services and raw cash

 

[Arch Dornan]

Who won? Buttygieg? His name's hard to spell.

 

[Isem]

Who won? Buttygieg? His name's hard to spell.

Apparently Buttigieg (I almost messed it up and I'm from the country his surname is from) came in first with Bernie second. Though considering the chaos it's hard to be sure if those are the "true" results as it were and not ones that were altered then presented.

 

[GoldRanger]

Usual screaming about how terrible caucuses are, that it's a Russian hack, etc, etc, combined with complaints about Republicans...in other words, business as usual.

Though it seems like early indicators are pointing towards Bernie winning with Buttigieg in a strong second place.

Are they going to tout that stupid "Russian hackers" conspiracy theory forever?

 

[Bigking321]

Are they going to tout that stupid "Russian hackers" conspiracy theory forever?

Of course.

Otherwise they would have to admit to being wrong and been making a huge fuss out of nothing.

Better to never admit fault and call everyone that disagrees a Russian plant.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Putin is their Emanuel Goldstein, it is always his fault. Except mass shootings, those are done by Sam Hyde.

 

[MelancholicMechanicus]

It seems what I predicted is happening: The dems are desperate to stop Bernie, and torching their own party into civil war.