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defacto7

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11. You can't have a paper backup that verifies a person's vote submitted by an app.

Reply to Bradshaw3 (Original post)

Tue Feb 4, 2020, 11:44 AM

Feb 2020

The only thing you know is that you have a copy of what the app says the vote was. If the app is faulty you have a backup of an app's failure. The app idea was a technically stupid idea.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Iowa: Take a chill pill, everybody [View all] Bradshaw3 Feb 2020 OP

this is a glitch and so what? did the sky fall? did we lose all our savings? do we now... samnsara Feb 2020 #1

Poor planning. Poor execution. Poor testing. No training. Rush to implement. No backup plan. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #5

END CAUCUSES NOW! NurseJackie Feb 2020 #2

How 'bout "go to the end of the line, Iowa"? calimary Feb 2020 #3

You cannot blame it on Iowa, the DNC should have taken control of it Perseus Feb 2020 #7

"Go to the back! There's always one, isn't there?" NurseJackie Feb 2020 #8

Too..the bright silver lining is there is paper BACKUP.... asiliveandbreathe Feb 2020 #4

Oh, and the republican propaganda machine is going to say "they screwed up, but they had paper... Perseus Feb 2020 #10

Its not so much what the con says, it is what most of the media say/write Perseus Feb 2020 #6

These opening events set the stage for the rest of the primary. CentralMass Feb 2020 #9

You can't have a paper backup that verifies a person's vote submitted by an app. defacto7 Feb 2020 #11

I see some have not taken their chill pill Bradshaw3 Feb 2020 #12

"A good rule of thumb in life is to assume that whatever Trump says, the opposite is true...." riversedge Feb 2020 #13