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Anyway, that’s going to be the story. Not the winner, however you want to count it.https://twitter.com/ericlevitz/status/1224545628518330369 …
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There is already a great, deliberate effort to flame the fans of conspiracy riding the Iowa screwup wave. 2020 can be an unmitigated disaster. I still cannot believe that they decided to do this via an app. The levels of incompetence required to make that decision are staggering.
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This interview defending the app! It’s so wrong! No wonder it’s crashing. These people didn’t know what they were doing. They didn’t ask people who would tell the truth. I guess some contractors made some money—at great cost to trust in election integrity.https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/795906732/despite-election-security-fears-iowa-caucuses-will-use-new-smartphone-app …
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Was in Iowa as a precinct captain. The insecurity is dwarfed by the confusion of the process.
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Huh. Ours was fine.
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Each precinct writes the number on a legal pad, shouts it out so everyone hears it, then phones it into some nice volunteer who adds it up on another legal pad and a bunch of people double check it. Let Putin try to hack that system.
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That was the backup, and the phone lines got jammed.
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The WSJ reported last week that Iowa used a Microsoft-built app in 2016 that worked fine. The insecurity issue with personal cellphones remains, but they did have an apparently smooth-working app for the previous caucus. https://www.wsj.com/articles/dems-iowa-caucus-voting-app-stirs-security-concerns-11580063221 …
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An app executed correctly would indeed likely have advantages vs. pre-existing methods.
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