What a caucusfuck!

[boston bean]

This is bad. I cannot believe the pooch is screwed this badly.

Get rid of them and strip Iowa of the first in the nation status.

[Beringia]

1. What were they thinking

To screw up something this important is so completely awful. We needed the momentum of clarity and strength.

[dalton99a]

2. Gross incompetence:

Some precinct chairs said they had trouble downloading or logging into the app and didn’t use it.

The apps were barely working Monday night, according to a person involved in processing the data who requested anonymity to discuss the party’s internal system. That forced party aides to record results from the precincts via phone and enter them manually into a database. Officials were left using photos of results to validate results and ensure accuracy.

Jonathan Green, who chaired a precinct in Lone Tree, said that when he tried to put the results into the reporting app, he kept getting a confusing error message: “Unknown protocol. The address specifies a protocol (e.g., “wxyz:??”.) the browser does not recognize, so the browser cannot properly connect to the site.”

He said he ultimately gave up and tried to call in the results to the party. Like others, he was put on hold for an extended period of time. In the end, it took hours to report results from his small site, he said.

Deploying new technology this close to an election is always a risky proposition, said Lawrence Norden, an elections expert with The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Norden said it’s akin to a major retailer using new cash registers for the first time on Black Friday.

https://apnews.com/69dd698aed24770b925add5fb69b501f

[Pachamama]

4. I am in Germany right now - was trying to explain what a Caucus was in the first place and how

...it worked and was done. Never mind that I got so many questions and comments that it sounded messed up to the people I was trying to explain it to and that the question asked most by everyone was “why?”.

But now, this morning I was asked about the results and I started explaining what happened with the software and the people having to video, the reporting by phone and being on hold etc...

I got blank stares and the following response comments:

“The US doesn’t have a democracy”

“If software is being used new before any election that’s crazy”

“If the US doesn’t use paper ballot voting, your election has already been stolen”

Yeah - we are fucked and this “Caucusfuck” is the warning to us all...

[Tipperary]

3. Rump must be loving this.

What a mess.

[spinbaby]

8. Russians are loving it

They may or may not be behind it, but I’m to the point where I see Russians everyplace.

[aeromanKC]

5. Biggus Caucus Clusterfuckus

[reACTIONary]

6. +1000 - Right ON nt

[BlueMTexpat]

7. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

Get rid of the f*cking caucus system!

Primaries for ALL!