Posted on 02/04/2020 4:42:41 AM PST by USA Conservative
The results of the Democratic Iowa caucus were delayed Monday evening because of a technical issue with the results system, according to reports.
About 85% of precincts were reporting results by 10:30 p.m. in 2016, according to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. This year, there were no results in at the same time, reportedly because of an issue with the application being used.
It seems that there is nothing new here folks.
Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign contributed money to the technological firm whose voting app that contributed to reporting delays in the Iowa caucuses.
Federal Election Commission filings reveal that Buttigieg’s campaign gave tens of thousands of dollars to Shadow on July 23, 2019 for “software rights and subscriptions.”
Shadow, a technology company that has an investor in the Democratic digital nonprofit organization ACRONYM, was also paid $60,000 over two installments by the Iowa Democratic Party to build an app to help make caucus voting easier and faster for precinct volunteers. Filings also reveal that the Nevada Democratic Party paid Shadow $58,000 for “website development.” (photo proof on the website) Also, the firm is run by veterans of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The Los Angeles Times reported this morning that 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.
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.
Niemira had previously worked at kiva.org, a nonprofit that makes loans to entrepreneurs and others in the developing world, and Davis had spent eight years as an engineer at Google. ACRONYM’s founder and CEO is Tara McGowan, a former journalist and digital producer with President Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign.
With no official results in from Iowa, it looks like Mayor Pete Buttigieg is claiming victory in the caucuses. He took to Twitter to announce a victory. Sort of.
https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1224564353040625665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1224564353040625665&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvoter-fraud-tech-firm-run-by-2016-clinton-campaign-members-created-the-voting-app-in-iowa%2F
https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1224563986353598465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1224563986353598465&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvoter-fraud-tech-firm-run-by-2016-clinton-campaign-members-created-the-voting-app-in-iowa%2F
At this rate, with this sort of disorder and chaos, President Trump is going to steamroll whoever the Democrats throw at him and his well-oiled machine this November. It is going to be like the 2016 election all over again, which is really quite appropriate considering Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, Robby Mook, is reportedly tied to the electoral mess in Iowa.
Iowa’s Republican and Democratic Parties] and their app and web development vendors partnered last fall with Harvard’s Defending Digital Democracy Project to develop strategies and systems to protect results and deal with any misinformation that’s reported on caucus night.
They worked with campaign experts Robby Mook and Matt Rhodes — as well as experts in cybersecurity, national security, technology and election administration — and simulated the different ways that things could go wrong on caucus night.
Mook, 2016 campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, and Rhodes, Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign manager, helped develop a public-service video to alert campaigns to the warning signs of hacking and misinformation.
I’m sure the Russians helped them design it. :)
Even if they announce a “winner” in Iowa, how would we really know? The result is tainted, and every DEM primary moving forward will be looked at with a critical eye.
Are any other FReepers having a good day? I know I am.
Democrats have LEARNED they can get away
with federal fraud, ... and murder.
So this SSDD.
I think the game-plan (at least by the DNC) is to quickly move on and not say much of anything. As long as Joe loses, things are fine. I expect other issues in Nevada to occur (last minute registrations), and Joe won’t pick up any real delegates there either.
All of this scripted out....Bernie will miss the needed delegates to reach ‘winner-status’ in the first round of the convention, and they can go onto the planned idea of a unknown person stepping up (I don’t think it’s Bloomberg either).
Me too! Trump declared victory in Iowa last night hahahah
Venezuela is microcosm.
Well the DemoRats prized technology turns out to be a yuuuuuuuuuuuge disAPPointment. (‘
This whole episode proves to me what I’ve posted on FR several times in the last few months is true:
Bernie is a Mega-Wimp.
You KNOW this FIX is aimed at Bernie. Shooting Bernie right between the eyes... or at least trying to... their aim might be so pitiful they can’t pull it off... but you KNOW that’s what’s going on here.
And Bernie knows. We all know he knows.
And what’s the Mega-Wimp saying about this? He’s taking it lying down. The Wimp is taking it without a whimper.
why are they using an app developed by some rinky dink company?
Mook is 2016 campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, and Rhodes is Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign manager.
Out of sheer public-spiritededness, they helped develop a video to alert campaigns to warning signs of hacking and misinformation.
ROTFLMAO!
“Biden surrogates are saying maybe we can’t trust any of the results and Buttigieg has just declared himself the winner.”
If Americans cannot see that this entire “voting” process is rigged that this point, there’s no helping us!
This reinforces my consideration that any/all vote-related software HAS to be open source. Proprietary vote-related software will be the new way to stuff the ballot box.
Clearly, there is only one thing to do—impeach them all, just in case.
Who makes the decision on the GOP side to use this? McConnell? Kevin McCarthy? The RNC? Prince Reibus?
Robbie Mook was just on the CBS morning show and NONE of the hosts asked him about any involvement with the app. Cutting-edge journalism.
Send in the Mueller investigation team— there’s gotta be some Russian hoax collusion angle to this cluster you know what.
Wow that does not have an odor at all does it?
I think the crooks were up to their usual stuff and they still lost to Sanders.
You cannot be serious?
SO THEY CAN RIG THE RESULTS!!
You receive and F for the Day.
Now write 1000 times "democrats lie and cheat"
I'm just kidding with you but seriously the reason they did this is to make sure they get the election results they wanted.
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