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Company Behind Iowa Caucus App Fiasco Has Close Ties to Clinton, Obama, Mark Zuckerberg
breitbart ^ | DAVID NG

Posted on 02/07/2020 9:52:26 AM PST by davikkm

ACRONYM, the technology firm behind Shadow Inc. and the Democratic Iowa caucus disaster, is more than just a wonkish outfit churning out code for political clients. By many accounts, the secretive organization served as a power nexus that connected party elites including Barack Obama, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Hillary Clinton.

As the fiasco surrounding the Iowa caucuses continues to unravel, the malfunctioning app that caused the delay in the reporting of Monday’s results has taken center stage. The secretive firm pulling the strings has also been yanked into the spotlight against its will as evidence mounts that its leaders were biased against presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.

The non-profit ACRONYM was created in 2017 to create digital tools to help defeat President Donald Trump and his allies. Last year, the organization created Shadow, Inc., a for-profit tech spin-off led by former 2016 Clinton campaign operatives that reportedly shares office space with ACRONYM.

Shadow created the notorious app that was supposed to collect and report caucus results throughout Iowa this week. But the software proved to be a dud on Monday, when its reporting capabilities broke down due to a “coding issue,” creating a national embarrassment for Democrats.

As recently noted by author Matt Stoller, ACRONYM’s mission extend far beyond the world of technology. The organization essentially functions as a vehicle for large Democratic donors to mobilize their resources against President Trump. The non-profit also served as a glorified digital ad buying service for progressive and liberal candidates.

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1 posted on 02/07/2020 9:52:26 AM PST by davikkm
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Soros is in this also.


2 posted on 02/07/2020 9:52:42 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Soros was the biggest funder..


3 posted on 02/07/2020 9:56:51 AM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: davikkm
ACRONYM, the technology firm behind Shadow Inc. and the Democratic Iowa caucus disaster, is more than just a wonkish outfit churning out code for political clients. By many accounts, the secretive organization served as a power nexus that connected party elites including Barack Obama, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Hillary Clinton.

Great work by Bon mots!


4 posted on 02/07/2020 9:59:20 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Most so called Cures for most viruses are imaginary! It has been ride it out, to survive or die.)
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To: davikkm

Election rigging and election interference. Once again, democrats accusing others of their own criminal conduct. As predictable as the sun rises, which may be the fault of republicans......


5 posted on 02/07/2020 9:59:54 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: davikkm

I’m not computer or high tech person.

And I realize high tech products can do a lot in collecting and analyzing data.

But, counting votes in a caucus is a very simple mathematical calculation. How can an app fail when it is supposed to perform among the most rudimentary calculations possible?

I have a feeling someone somewhere, wanted to throw a Molotov cocktail into the Iowa caucuses.

It was funny to see the news people on all the networks Monday night, all ready to analyze the results, and they had to sit there and fill air time with the news that there is no news to report.

Talking heads with nothing to talk about was funny.


6 posted on 02/07/2020 10:02:16 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Bernie’s Boyz are gonna be mad, mad MAD! Snake bit again!
And likely by the same Medusa as before.


7 posted on 02/07/2020 10:06:22 AM PST by lee martell
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8 posted on 02/07/2020 10:06:36 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: davikkm

Cue Nick Cage saying; “You don’t say!”


9 posted on 02/07/2020 10:07:44 AM PST by lee martell
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Conspiracy theory 1. Produce deadlocked convention that will turn to Hillary.

Conspiracy theory 2. Discredit Iowa so it can be replaced by a less white state as first in the nation to vote.

10 posted on 02/07/2020 10:09:19 AM PST by omega4412
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Yeah I think the app performed exactly as designed....it didn’t report properly so that hellary et al could manipulate the results to her advantage...the app was a stalking horse...hellary will continue to throw grenades into the rat primaries so that no clear cut nor strong favorite emerges...then she can swoop in on her broom and gurney and save the day like Mighty Mouse...then with the mother of all massive fraud she hopes to beat Trump...


11 posted on 02/07/2020 10:13:05 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: omega4412

I think both of these are possible. I’ve heard talk that this fiasco discredits Iowa so much, that they may terminate the Iowa caucuses. We’ll see.


12 posted on 02/07/2020 10:14:34 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Guys on 4chan yesterday were digging into the app. Seems like it was sending info to 3rd parties.


13 posted on 02/07/2020 10:16:59 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
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The Democrat Liberal fascist Obama led hegemony is still at work within the Dem party. No Russia, Ukraine nor any extra national intervention effectively occurred in 2016 , these liberal fascists were hiding under the shield of their own false, empty accusations. They screwed themselves and are still doing so.Iowa makes that apparent to all.

And Now Bloomberg has purchased the Dem party to make way for a dark horse, Hillary, Kerry, Gavin Newsom,Sherrod Brown, Michelle Obama, Deval Patrick or Oprah Winfrey ? Bloomberg is now the King maker, and the Dem left is going whirling dervishly mad over it.

My money is on the dark horse. Bernie will not be allowed to make it, even if upon pain of Fort Marcy Park.

FUN TO WATCH!


14 posted on 02/07/2020 10:23:48 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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Hillary is pulling Buttigeig’s strings. He’s Hillary’s puppet.


15 posted on 02/07/2020 10:24:26 AM PST by Crucial
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We have a political civil war going on in the Democratic Party. Pop LOTS of popcorn. 😁
16 posted on 02/07/2020 10:26:38 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: davikkm

Wow, you would have thought that these “geniuses” would have at least named their company something other than “Shadow”. This name brings up images of dark backroom dealings and evil personified. Skynet would have been a better choice!


17 posted on 02/07/2020 10:27:27 AM PST by jimmygrace
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Friends of Michelle Obama were programmers nightmares...

(...problem-plagued Obamacare website.)

18 posted on 02/07/2020 10:29:01 AM PST by yoe (Want to HELP the Slave Trade and Drug Cartels in USA? Vote democrat........)
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It’s confirmed. George Soros, the billionaire behind so many radical progressive movements in America, was the largest donor to the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a political nonprofit operated by President Obama’s initial Attorney General, Eric Holder. The NDRC provided the bulk of the funding to Pacronym, a super PAC bent on electing Democrats to office across the nation.

Pacronym is the super PAC arm of Acronym, a “dark money” group that happens to have purchased Shadow Inc in early 2019. Shadow Inc is the company behind the app used by the Iowa Democratic Party to report results from the precincts to the party itself.


19 posted on 02/07/2020 10:31:02 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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This was nothing more than a ‘black ops’ perpetrated by Hillary Clinton in my opinion. These three principles were probably associated with the Platte River Group, who managed the Clinton servers and bleach bit them, hammered their devices, etc., in order to obstruct justice. Anyone who has followed the IC knows how Dispruption Ops are deployed. She didn’t care who won the Iowa Caucus. She only wanted to disrupt the proceedings and cause everyone to question the validity of the Democratic Candidate. What were the actual results of this fiasco? Utter chaos and confusion? Mission accomplished.


20 posted on 02/07/2020 10:31:42 AM PST by richardtavor
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