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 keep wondering how many of our tax dollars went to fund (cough) Harvard’s “Defending Digital Democracy Project.”
It's the democrat party, it's always voter fraud with them.
Damn RATS are so corrupt. Impossible to hide the many cheatin’ ways they use. Why do people vote for these crumb bumbs?
Sounds like a job for Mueller and team to investigate. They could use the work.
The Democrats, individually and collectively, could and often do screw up a one-car funeral.
The one crime that is universally punished throughout the Universe is stupidity.
I think your statement might not be sarcasm. Trump and the Republicans’ Iowa caucus goes off like clockwork, the dems’, using an app, is a complete dumpster fire. The dems have gall to say, in all seriousness, the Russians did this and this will be evidence if Trump wins in above (due to Russian intervention).
The dims need to follow their own advice.
“Learn to code”.
Only stupid people actually count each vote. Here, we have an algorithm that short circuits that.
In exchange for giving them Alaska.
Could we give them DC instead?
“Voter Fraud? Tech Firm Run By 2016 Clinton Campaign Members Created The Voting App...”
...nuff said.
Well, Robby Mook denied it.
So, it’s been debunked?
We need to disabuse ourselves of the notion that either political faction is in any way a true function of government.
We should be content just to point and laugh (but never use their software).
Love your work!
Bernie Boys will be maaaaaaad!!!
Not surprised. Read somewhere that Bernie got thrown out of a hippy commune during his youthful years for talking revolution all the time but not doing any of the work.
Bernie is a (Socialist) politician because he's all talk....no results.
It is hilarious when the “experts” on “election security” drone on and on about “foreign actors”.
The primary threat to election security is the Democratic Party.
Full stop.
I guess you missed my invisible sarc tag.
The app scandal is real, but by OTHER Clinton/Obama operatives.
Just a coincidence................
Does anybody remember Romney’s vaunted GOTV “ORCA” app that failed miserably on election day?
According to Wikipedia (!), “internal skunkworks” IT people and volunteers on Romney’s team developed the app. And “it didn’t cost Romney all that much money”. (paraphrasing)
Romney later probably said ORCA didn’t cost him the election, I don’t remember.
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