App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested

NYTimes ^ | 2/4/2020 | Nick Corasaniti, Sheera Frenkel and Nicole Perlroth

[TomServo]

DES MOINES — The app that the Iowa Democratic Party commissioned to tabulate and report results from the caucuses on Monday was not properly tested at a statewide scale, said people who were briefed on the app by the state party.

It was quickly put together in just the past two months, said the people, some of whom asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

And the party decided to use the app only after another proposal for reporting votes — which entailed having caucus participants call in their votes over the phone — was abandoned, on the advice of Democratic National Committee officials, according to David Jefferson, a board member of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan election integrity organization.

[TomServo]

I don't always test, but when I do, it's in production.

[kempster]

And, they want to run the country?

[jaydubya2]

Just like the Obamacare website.

[Leep]

Just like the Obamacare website.

Just like obamacare.

[Bell Bouy II]

"And the party decided to use the app only after another proposal for reporting votes — which entailed having caucus participants call in their votes over the phone — was abandoned" Nice try with that one, what could go wrong ??

[Trump.Deplorable]

Dems don’t know how to run a simple IT project and yet they want to run the country?

This is the best hing that could ever happen. It proves the Dems can’t lead and they certainly can’t even run a simple app that is suppose to just tally numbers, which is programming 101 in any Junior High these days.

[glorgau]

As long as it doesn’t tabulate votes for Bernie.

[Trump.Deplorable]

How did they do it in 2016 and before?

Why not just do that?

[Bell Bouy II]

Probably cause it cant be manipulated

[DoodleDawg]

App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested

Ya think?

[AU72]

Same thing happened with Romney on election day. His app that was supposed to communicate with the ground game nationwide crashed and they were left clueless.

That also was not tested. I'm in software QA and this is immensely enjoyable.

[1Old Pro]

The same guy who put together Obama’s 30 billion useless website must have been in charge. Either that, or it was Russian hacking. LOL, what a bunch of boobs. The whole nation is laughing at their incompetence. And now, they are ALL LYING saying they won with no data.

[rdl6989]

Why am I not buying this?

[mware]

They refused the offer of Dept of Homeland Securities to test run their program

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Same thing happened with Romney on election day. His app that was supposed to communicate with the ground game nationwide crashed and they were left clueless.”

But for the rest of his life?

[4yearlurker]

The Russians said the App worked just fine.

[paulcissa]

But for the rest of his life?

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[Eddie01]

They had to wait for the markets to open to move investments ahead of reaction to Bernie win.

expect results soon.

[Dr. Sivana]

How did they do it in 2016 and before?>/I>

In 1982 I took a temp job reporting results to the combined news services in Chicago for the IL Gubernatorial Election. I took called in numbers, and ran them over to a key punch operator in the Medina Hall in downtown Chicago. There were hundreds of us. It was a close race, and even though I was the first one getting the numbers, I had no idea who won, and was among the last ones to know, as no one was talking about the overall results in the boiler room, only our tiny pieces of the puzzle.

It worked. And we are talking about A LOT more votes to count.

[Lurker]

They had to use it to find out what’s in it.

L