Posted on 02/10/2020 9:23:53 PM PST by Ken H
The chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party on Monday was briefly interrupted during his remarks on the muddled results of the Iowa caucuses when a sign for his organization fell off the podium mid-press conference.
The moment occurred as Troy Price spoke to reporters about the results tabulated by party officials and the recanvassing efforts requested by two campaigns.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Another link to video => https://twitter.com/IAStartingLine/status/1226977302711611392
And the veil of the Temple was torn asunder. Just an observation. Message?
Something needs to be done about finding stuffed ballot boxes in the trunks of cars days after the elections.
Yes, the podium hates you, too.
Just shedding skin like the snakes they are
HA!
They can’t even use a stapler, tacks or tape properly....
and yet they want to run the world.
WINNING
All election official activity ought be monitored by video. The only exception is individual vote casting.
It’s clearly a... sign! [groan]
What an apt metaphor for the socialist and closet socialists party.
Should I try the veal here?
He was there to straighten out the count.
His podium got hacked by the Russians. What a knee slapper!
Sign of Failure
I’m just going to consider this election an extension of 2016 so I can say....BEST ELECTION EVER!!!
Idiots can’t even find a guy who knows how to hang a sign right and we’re supposed to trust them with deciding who gets to build our roads and bridges? Nooooo, thanks!
The NYT reported the first signs of trouble at the Iowa Caucuses came early.
<><> the smartphone app had been ok’ed last fall by Harvard’s Harvard’s “Defending Digital Democracy Project”
to develop strategies and systems to protect results and deal with misinformation (LA Times report).
<><> The Harvard group included “party campaign experts” and experts in
(A) cybersecurity, (B) national security, (C) technology and (D) election administration.
<><> fortuitously, the Harvard group simulated different ways “things could go wrong” on caucus night.
<><> (cue maniacal laugh machine here).
<><> but a simple task like reporting the results began failing last Monday night.
<><> “quick-thinking” Democrat party officials then instructed precinct leaders to move to Plan B:
<><> plan B had precincts call-in results into caucus hdq in Des Moines, to be entered into a secure system by volunteers.
<><> but when volunteers tried to log on, they discovered they needed smartphones to retrieve a code,
<><> the caucus team had been told NOT to bring phones into the “boiler room” in Des Moines.
<><> a torrent of results were phoned in from gyms, union halls and elsewhere, places that made the Iowa caucuses a world-famous “model of democracy,”
<><> it soon became clear that the whole smart-phone, app process was melting down.
<><> desperate volunteers resorted to passing around a spare iPad to log into the system
<><> other Dems , desperate to verify results, were telling precinct leaders to email photos of worksheets that tallied results — to a dedicated email address.
<><> for hours, no one monitored the inbox; finally opened Tues AM, there were 700 emails with photos sent sideways;
<><> volunteers faced the task of deciphering the handwritten forms.
<><> Iowa Demo Party chair, Troy Price, huddled with other Democrat officials,
<><> alas, no Democrat had a clear strategy to manage the unfolding chaos with exasperated presidential campaigns.
Everything they touch
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