Iowa Precinct Chairs Report Issues Using Caucus App, Potentially Delaying Results

[brooklynite]

Bloomberg

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.

[OnDoutside]

1. What could possibly go wrong.....

[4139]

5. все будет хорошо, Владимир Путин k

[LongtimeAZDem]

7. ...

[Skidmore]

2. Happened in 2016

too. And we were fine with using the hotline over the app. Results were recorded on a paper forms and certified by precinct captains for each candidate. Forms went to auditors.

[Jakes Progress]

3. Golly. That must mean that the Iowa Democratic Party

has fashioned an app that no one in the world can hack, even the russian mafia.

They need to share that with the Defense Department.

Note: This is sarcasm. If it's done on an app - russia and china can mess with it. How naive.

[patricia92243]

4. My first thought exactly.

[in2herbs]

6. And so the election interference begins . . . . nt