Despite Election Security Fears, Iowa Caucuses Will Use New Smartphone App

[CentralMass]

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/795906732/despite-election-security-fears-iowa-caucuses-will-use-new-smartphone-app

[dalton99a]

1. The super-duper super-secret app worked pretty well

[Backseat Driver]

2. How much for the update(s) to work out the bugs?

Oops! Read it and weep if you're still waiting on returns.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/06/05/microsoft-technology-to-usher-in-new-era-for-2016-iowa-caucuses/

"...Our Technology and Civic Engagement Group at Microsoft focuses on bringing our best people and resources to help civic leaders – and the communities they serve – to solve their biggest challenges. Facilitating sustained partnerships across organizations is necessary to coalesce an understanding of community priorities, the policy environment, and technological innovation.

We look forward to working with the citizens and political parties in the state of Iowa and applying Microsoft expertise in technology, data, and business intelligence to help make the caucus reporting efficient, accurate, and secure."
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Can it be any clearer?

[denem]

3. ROFL - 'The Blue Screen of Death'

[Backseat Driver]

4. So (where) WTF did that story in the LATimes come from?

re: the origins of that caucus app. Not posting the link - it's weird enough if you connect some invisible dots of the past that would be Creative Speculation ...so I won't lay it out here...just hmmmm...