Posted on 02/15/2020 3:49:56 AM PST by Libloather
The contract between the Iowa Democratic Party and the company tasked with designing the app that sits at the center of the caucus meltdown on the opening night of the presidential nominating process underscores how deeply involved the Democratic National Committee was in ensuring the online tool was secure.
The app eventually failed on Feb. 3, the night of the caucuses, with a glitch making it impossible for many precinct chairs to use the tool that was meant to calculate and submit data from Iowa's more than 1,700 caucus sites. The app's failure -- combined with an overwhelmed call center and poor communication with the numerous presidential campaigns competing in Iowa -- plunged the caucus process into chaos nearly two weeks ago. No results were reported that night and, even when they were, mistakes in the counting has further delayed the certification of the results.
The Democratic National Committee is not a party to the contract, which was signed by the Iowa Democratic Party and the app maker Shadow and was provided to CNN by a Democratic source with access to the contract, but a section of the contract does outline how the app makers must "work with the DNC Services Corporation/Democratic National Committee ('DNC') on an on-going basis as Consultant develops the software."
The contract outlines how the national committee would be involved in multiple aspects of securing the app, including Shadow providing "continual access to review the Consultant's system configurations, security and system logs, system designs, data flow designs, security controls (preventative and detective), and operational plans for how the Consultant will use and run the Software for informational dissemination, pre-registration, tabulation, and reporting throughout the caucus process."
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Can't blame the Russians. Darn the luck.
It’s starting to look like they’ll be able to determine Epstein’s killer well before they get an honest and accurate count out of Iowa.
The Iowa Caucus contract reveals that while (A) The Iowa Democratic Party and (B) the app maker Shadow were signatories to the contract, the deal specifies that the app makers must "work with the DNC Services Corporation/Democratic National Committee ('DNC') on an on-going basis as Consultant develops the software."
The contract outlines:
<><> how the DNC would be intimately involved in multiple aspects of securing the app,
<><> including Shadow providing "continual DNC access" to review the Consultant's system configurations,
<><> DNC would review security and system logs, system designs, data flow designs,
<><> DNC would monitor security controls (preventative and detective),
<><> DNC would oversee operational plans for how the Consultant will use and run the Software
<><> DNC would be in on informational dissemination, pre-registration, tabulation, and,
<><> DNC would field reports throughout the caucus process.
But it wasn’t just the app.
The Register / CNN poll, two days before, was deliberately held back ... the excuse was “inconsistencies”, but everyone smelled deliberate manipulation by the DNC and their Media pals to stop any mention of Bernie succeeding
The whole mess reeks of the ol’ back-room dirty tricks ... this is what will destroy the Democrat Party from within
I think the DNC people are protesting too much. There is something bigger going on here and they want the general public to accept whomever the DNC wants to blame and consider this a one-time glitch. The DNC used Iowa as a test run for their cheating on Election Day.
Liz, you may have over-looked:
<><>DNC staff were classmates with AOC and smoking MJ daily
The Russkies wrote that contract to embarrass the DNC.
Everybody knows that... ;-)
The porn surfing side of the app, the DNC demanded to be included, was hogging all the memory.
Not so fast, Republicans.
In 2012, Mitt Romney’s campaign had a similar app fail with its Project Orca, an Election Day get out the vote app. Same problems, same lack of testing, same lack of training, etc.
The Republicans paid a ton of contributors’ donations to a consultant, a Zac Moffat, for his incompetence and failure. He walked away with a lot of your money.
But wait - that’s not the end of the story!
Guess who the Republicans NRCC hired this year to run the digital ops of their campaign?
That’s right - the same Zac Moffat.
In politics, you get rewarded for failure.
Think of that when the NRCC asks you for money.
LOL....that is a biggie.
An inside job by someone with access doesn’t require a hack or a data breach
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