tRump supporters colluded to cause chaos on the Iowa Caucus hotlines...

[cynatnite]

The phone number to report Iowa caucus results was posted on a fringe internet message board on Monday night along with encouragement to “clog the lines,” an indication that jammed phone lines that left some caucus managers on hold for hours may have in part been due to prank calls.

An Iowa Democratic Party official said the influx of calls to the reporting hotline included “supporters of President Trump who called to express their displeasure with the Democratic Party.” The party official’s comments were first reported late Wednesday by Bloomberg News.

Users on a politics-focused section of the fringe 4chan message board repeatedly posted the phone number for the Iowa Democratic Party, which was found by a simple Google search, both as screenshots and in plain text, alongside instructions.

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Iowa Democratic Party officials said that party staff members and volunteers flagged and subsequently blocked repeat callers who appeared to be reaching out in an attempt to interfere with their reporting duties. These included callers who would hang up immediately after being connected and callers who expressed support for President Donald Trump and displeasure with the Democratic Party.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/clog-lines-iowa-caucus-hotline-posted-online-encouragement-disrupt-results-n1131521

[malaise]

1. on M$NBComcast right now

I knew it from day one.
Con campaign and 4Chan

[Initech]

14. Their parents need to take away their wifi.

[Takket]

2. More election fraud from the right....

[uponit7771]

3. They hate democracy

[malaise]

7. I am trying to remember the name of the DUer who posted last year

that the media, ReTHUGs and RWs would be promoting Pete Buttigieg for their own reality TV show agenda.
I thought about him since Monday night

[uponit7771]

10. Same, Still thinks America votes him in over Benedict Donald sans Trump cheating

[2naSalit]

9. They hate us for our freedom...

as W used to say.

[rockfordfile]

4. Not surprised they're un-American

[RAB910]

5. The anti-Americanism of the trump cult is truly disgusting

[BusyBeingBest]

6. Perpetual 6th graders.

[tinrobot]

8. Yep. That was exactly my theory.

I even posted about it:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12947702

It was obvious something like that was happening.

But the fact that the phone number got out to the world is our error. Moving forward, we need to be incredibly vigilant about security.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Each precinct should have had sealed envelopes, with certain assigned numbers & pass keys.

.

These should have only been opened in the event of a problem, and multiple dial-in numbers used that divide the precincts up to a single primary and a contingent number.

There should have been passwords and passkeys for each precinct to help prevent imposters.

.

[nykym]

12. Are we collectively to stupid to

infiltrate 4chan and post numbers to call for trump campaign or pron sites?
Redirect using their own methods, forget the high road this is war!

[Initech]

15. No, fuck that POS website.

They do not deserve our, or anyone's attention. They can fuck off and eat shit.

[Initech]

13. Fucking assholes.