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THEN AND NOW-——THE IOWA CAUCUS DEBACLE: Harvard techs signed off on caucus app
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Posted on 02/09/2020 8:48:41 AM PST by Liz

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To: Liz

Internet voting, computerized voting are all invitations to FRAUD and manipulation.

Besides the logical steps of needing voter ID to vote, closing registration before an election occurs, and regularly purging voter rolls, Americans should demand only traceable, paper ballots be used.


21 posted on 02/09/2020 9:11:18 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Liz

I love dogs. I’ve owned dogs, done dog obedience training, and while I currently cannot have a dog, I dogsit two pups for relatives and love them dearly (they love me too - I’m more liberal with treats .. I guess that makes me a Socialist pup sitter? /s).

That being said, the premise is really sick ... that killing dogs will get you kicked out of a political race, but supporting and advocating for killing human babies is A-ok & a resume enhancement on the Dem/Prog/Leftist side of politics.

Second point, since dogs are such a sensitive subject, too bad toting a dog around in a crate on top of a car luggage rack isn’t enough to disqualify someone from being a Senator .... just sayin’.


22 posted on 02/09/2020 9:11:47 AM PST by Qiviut (President Trump: defies political gravity - MAGA!)
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To: Liz

Thanks. In my haste, I forgot to add that they didn’t start writing their app until a couple months ago because they were so sure Plan A was going to work.

It really is amazing to think that they only started writing the app a couple months ago. It’s not like they had FOUR years to plan it, is it?


23 posted on 02/09/2020 9:12:41 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Liz

Repubs didn’t use the app


24 posted on 02/09/2020 9:13:55 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Iowa had FOUR years to plan for the all-important first-in-the-nation caucuses....but "they say" they started
writing the app couple months ago. They were THAT sure Plan A---ousting Trump---was going to work.

That's a very significant observation.

All of the 2016 wrong-doing, and sloppiness, leaving evidence all over the place, was based on the same Democrat stupidity:

Hillary was a shoo-in.....Trump would never be elected. What could possibly go wrong?

25 posted on 02/09/2020 9:25:43 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Harvard techs signed off on caucus app

Which probably means the app worked correctly.

The problem occurred when the FAR LEFT IOWA LIBERALS decided to "GREEN WEENY" the Iowa voters.

26 posted on 02/09/2020 9:35:49 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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DNC boss Perez says he will ‘absolutely’ not’ resign following Iowa debacle
Fox News | 09 Feb 2020 | Andrew O’Reilly
FR Posted by E. Pluribus Unum

Despite facing widespread criticism from prominent members from his own party following the debacle with the Iowa caucus, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez had terse words for those who have called on him to step down from his post.

“Absolutely not.”

The DNC boss said Sunday that he’s had to make tough decisions during his tenure and admitted that Iowa was a mess, but pointed to the success his party had in the 2018 midterms and Democrats’ expectations for November’s general election as reasons why he won’t be resigning.

“Look at the last three years in my job when I came in was to rebuild our infrastructure, to win elections,” Perez said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We have been winning. This is what it’s about. I think it’s really important for people to take a broader step back right now.”

Perez’s comments come amid calls from a number of Democrats in Congress for him to relinquish his post.

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have all called on Perez to be held accountable for the confusion that arose following last week’s Iowa caucus.

“What’s happened in Iowa is a complete disgrace and someone needs to be held responsible,” Ocasio-Cortez said outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday. “I think there’s a conversation needed around taking responsibility for Iowa and ensuring that this bungled process never happens again.”

These comments come after Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio also slammed Perez. “He doesn’t lead on anything,” Fudge told Politico. (Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


27 posted on 02/09/2020 9:46:27 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Before we pillory the democrats, remember, in 2012 it was Mitt Romney and his genius consultants who developed the Project Orca app to get out the vote and it failed in the first 10 minutes on election day.

Like the democrat consultant wunderkind, Romney’s stupid geniuses didn’t test it, ignored others who told them it was flawed, but still walked off with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds. They then got hired by other campaigns to do the same crap work.


28 posted on 02/09/2020 10:33:12 AM PST by oldbill
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NO IOWA CAUCUS DEBACLE the DNC knew who won they just didn’t like who won it’s all about control with that lot.

Motto: Rigging is our game to hell with the public.


29 posted on 02/09/2020 10:42:48 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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More on Romney’s failed Project Orca.

The guy who ran that program and profited highly from his failure, Zac Moffat, is now using his new company (Targeted Victory) as the digital fundraising consultant for the National Republican Congressional Campaign committee.

This failure is now reaping million$ from the same stupid Republicans he ripped off in 2012.

Politics is wonderful. In the good ole boy networks, you never fail, you never get fired. You get rewarded and make millions. Wonder where your contributions go? Not to win votes, but to line the pockets of incompetent, corrupt insiders like Zac Moffat.

So don’t be too rough on the Iowa democrats.
The Congressional Republicans are doing the same thing, with your dollars.


30 posted on 02/09/2020 10:46:27 AM PST by oldbill
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I OWE THEM CRIMINALS 23 1/4 trillion

https://usdebtclock.org

Russian debt...1/4 trillion

https://usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html

Wait, what...?


31 posted on 02/09/2020 12:05:49 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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THIS IS HILARIOUS.

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.

<><> 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 they 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.

32 posted on 02/10/2020 8:39:22 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side d. <P><><> Iooesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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We have to install the app before we find out what it does.


33 posted on 02/10/2020 8:43:37 AM PST by whodathunkit
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LOL....good one.


34 posted on 02/10/2020 8:44:45 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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