The Harvard group included party "campaign experts" Robby Mook and Matt Rhodes, and experts in (A) cybersecurity, (B) national security, (C) technology and (D) election administration.
Fortuitously, the group simulated different ways "things could go wrong" on caucus night. (cue maniacal laugh machine here).
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.
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THAT WAS THEN---THIS IS NOW---WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DEBACLE
"The app the Iowa Democratic Party commissioned to tabulate and report results from the caucuses on Monday was not properly tested, people briefed on the app by the state party told newspapers. It was quickly put together in just the past two months , said the people, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly."
Plus the state party decided to use the app only after another proposal for reporting votes — which entailed caucus participants phoning in their votes — was abandoned, on the advice of DNC officials, according to David Jefferson, a board member of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan election integrity organization.
The Iowa flop was a huge money-making scam gone horribly wrong.
Using con artist tactics, they principles duped people into paying for useless apps.
They sold it using tech bafflegab. The money was rolling in——who needs results?