The app that broke the Iowa caucus: An inside look

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Results from Monday's Iowa caucus were delayed for days because of problems with a smartphone app used to tabulate and report results, causing chaos and frustration among campaigns and voters. A reported coding issue caused the app to only report out partial data, Iowa Democratic Chairman Troy Price said in a statement.

Cybersecurity company Blue Hexagon obtained a copy of the app, created by a company called Shadow, Inc. Blue Hexagon's head of cyberthreat intelligence and operations, Irfan Asrar, spoke with CNET's Dan Patterson about what went wrong and the overarching cybersecurity concerns this presents for the rest of the 2020 election.

Blue Hexagon is still diagnosing exactly why the app failed. But the final version of the app has several problems within the code, including links to people's personal websites, Asrar said.

"What we believe is, this is an oversight, and an example of the app being rushed into production," he added.

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1. Too little of information but, Sanders have a heads up and hinky behavior with satellite vote.

I would like to see this play out to better understand the system and what went wrong. These systems that are being placed in our lives causes us lots of time, trouble and effort. Being rushed out and having failures is the norm. Us old people have only so much time, and they waste so much of our time. Everywhere in life. It is interesting.