Technical issues with thing that tabulates Iowa votes up next on CNN 3:55pm

[applegrove]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-gives-fresh-evidence-twitter-184858682.html

Bloomberg

"SNIP......

Precinct chairs across Iowa said that some of them are struggling to use the new phone application for reporting Monday night’s caucus results, potentially delaying the counting of the first votes in the 2020 Democratic race.

The application is one of the ways local officials who oversee individual caucuses are able to send results from each of the nearly 1,700 sites to the Iowa Democratic Party, which compiles and checks the results.

The app was created to improve the efficiency of reporting of results, but chairs unable to use the app on Monday will send their results to the party via a call-in number. The party hotline has always been available to precinct chairs. State party officials said they have no concerns that the results will be counted inaccurately.

The final tally could be delayed by a few hours because the chairs will have to call the hotline and read the results instead of submitting them electronically.

Four Democratic county chairs told Bloomberg News that some precinct chairs told them that they were unable to download or log in to the phone app. The Iowa Democratic Party said it is aware of the problems, but stressed it would not affect the reporting of the results. -- Tyler Pager

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[rockfordfile]

1. More corruption?

[Bradical79]

12. I doubt it

[getagrip_already]

2. that's an understatement... people have been predicting chaos for months.....

They switched up how they will tabulate votes, and lets just say they picked a heck of a time to select the lowest russian bidder.

But not corruption, just not well thought out.

[Mike 03]

3. Thanks for the heads up. Tuning in now.

[Bettie]

4. If the App doesn't work

then there is also a phone number to call in results. That has worked fine in the past and will today as well.

And, here, we know that our votes are counted and not disappeared into the ether from a no-paper-trail voting machine. Even in the general, our votes are done on scanner pages, so a hand recount is possible.

The point is there are always last minute things that go wrong. In EVERY system that deals with large numbers of people.

[applegrove]

5. Thanks.

[Bettie]

6. All of the paperwork is also

sent to the county and state party offices in sealed envelopes.

If there is a problem with one way of counting, there are backups.

[emulatorloo]

8. Thanks for posting this info.

[Iliyah]

7. The Gold Standard Newspaper and now this?

WOW

[justgamma]

11. Everybody who attends the

caucus knows the vote totals. I don't see how there could be any mistakes made that won't be caught immediately.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Who got the App Contract?

Something smells like there might be a interface with local Phone Carriers.

[defacto7]

10. If something can go wrong with one part of the system

there are a thousand more things that could go wrong.

An app. How adolescent.

[Bradical79]

13. Never had a phone app that didn't cause problems for somebody

There's a reason companies are always rolling out updates. Doesn't sound too awful though since there's the backup system of just calling someone. Some will get results in the old fashioned way, and others will be more efficient.

It's some poor planning though if some are trying to download the app on the day of caucuses. For something important like this, people should already have the app, been trained to use it, and hopefully test it.