Iowa Caucuses in a Shambles as Reporting System Breaks Down

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Iowa caucuses in a shambles as reporting system breaks down

The first election of the 2020 presidential campaign descended into a farce on Monday, as widespread reports indicated that the smartphone app for reporting the results of Iowa’s caucuses had become non-functional and calls to the Democratic Party’s backup telephone hotline was swamped with delays.

As a result, nearly four hours after caucuses began, just 2% of precincts had reported results. The debacle prompted Daily Kos to cancel its election-night liveblog, the first time in the site’s 18-year history it has ever done such a thing.

Election watchers will have to wait until Tuesday morning to learn more, but whether Iowa can still produce accurate and reliable results at this point is an open question. At a minimum, this debacle should bring a permanent end to all caucuses.

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As Iowa’s caucuses raged into the night, the most important statewide Democrat, Attorney General Tom Miller, began caucusing for Pete Buttigieg after his endorsed candidate, Joe Biden, was no longer viable in his precinct.

The largely symbolic move comes as the 38-year-old former South Bend mayor gained recent momentum—and as Biden struggled to capture as much traction in the earliest caucusing stages.
When the former VP didn’t reach the necessary threshold to become viable in precinct 59, Miller moved over to Buttigieg’s side.

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Buttigieg campaign paid firm that developed voting app blamed for Iowa caucus delays
by Spencer Neale
The Washington Examiner | February 04, 2020 02:17 AM

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's campaign contributed money to the technological firm whose voting app that contributed to reporting delays in the Iowa caucuses.

Federal Election Commission filings reveal that Buttigieg's campaign gave tens of thousands of dollars to Shadow on July 23, 2019 for "software rights and subscriptions."

Shadow, a technology company that has an investor in the Democratic digital nonprofit organization ACRONYM, was also paid $60,000 over two installments by the Iowa Democratic Party to build an app to help make caucus voting easier and faster for precinct volunteers. Filings also reveal that the Nevada Democratic Party paid Shadow $58,000 for "website development."

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More at https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/buttigieg-campaign-paid-firm-that-developed-voting-app-blamed-for-iowa-caucus-delays

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Non-Citizens, DACA Illegal Aliens Organize for Democrats in Iowa Caucus

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/03/non-citizens-daca-illegal-aliens-organize-for-democrats-in-iowa-caucus/

Non-citizens and illegal aliens shielded from deportation by Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are helping to organize behind 2020 Democrat presidential candidates in the Iowa caucus.

A report by HuffPost highlighted non-citizens’ involvement in the 2020 Democrat caucus in Iowa, with DACA illegal aliens and foreign nationals living in the United States working on behalf of candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

None of the foreign nationals, except for a newly naturalized citizen mentioned in the piece, are eligible to actually caucus in the Iowa caucus.

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Nevada Dems planning to use similar app linked to Iowa caucus mess

For its caucuses later this month, the Nevada Democratic Party (NDP) is planning to use an app similar to the one that contributed to the issues reporting the results of the Iowa caucuses on Monday night — and it has paid almost $60,000 to the same company that developed the Iowa app.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nevada-dems-planning-to-use-similar-app-linked-to-iowa-caucus-mess

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The Iowa caucus should have been discarded a decade ago.
It's quite a waste of time.
Well, the Big mess that became of it last night
should kill it, finally.

The Iowa caucus volunteers look like they came from the
local nursing old folks home.
probably don't know what an app is/how to use one
BWAHAAA!!

IOWA CAUCUS-GOER FINDS OUT PETE BUTTIGIEG IS GAY

"... I Want To Change My Vote!!!"

Pete Buttigieg seemed to lose at least one supporter during this week's caucusing in Iowa, and it's all because the woman found he was gay AFTER she cast her vote.

More at https://www.tmz.com/2020/02/04/pete-buttigieg-iowa-caucus-voter-finds-out-gay-homophobic/

elsewhere, turd_ferguson wrote:: The company that created the APP that they are claiming is to blame for this is named " shadow" .. and take a wild guess who the two owners used to work for...................

Hillary Clinton

The LA Times notes that Shadow (Developer of the App used in Iowa ) began life as Groundbase, which was founded by former Clinton 2016 digital campaign staffers Gerard Niemira and Krista Davis.

Gerard Niemira, a veteran of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, is the head of Shadow. He previously served as chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Acronym, according to his LinkedIn page. In 2019, David Plouffe, one of the chief architects of President Barack Obama’s wins, joined the board of advisers for Acronym.

Acronym spokesman Kyle Tharp put out a statement distancing the group from Shadow, saying that Acronym is merely an investor in the for-profit company.

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It looks like my Pete is taking it
Joe really messed up, but most likely he will come back.

Still. there is a very loooong road to who and Nov.

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Rachel Maddow blamed anonymous messageboard 4Chan for the debacle in Iowa, claiming that a handful of calls ‘clogged up’ the Iowa Democratic Party phone lines.

https://summit.news/2020/02/07/rachel-maddow-blames-4chan-for-shambles-in-iowa/

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Grackle wrote:: Rachel Maddow blamed anonymous messageboard 4Chan for the debacle in Iowa, claiming that a handful of calls ‘clogged up’ the Iowa Democratic Party phone lines.

https://summit.news/2020/02/07/rachel-maddow-blames-4chan-for-shambles-in-iowa/

Most all news and papers have reported the same..

https://www.google.com/search?q=4Chan+AND+PHONES+IOWA&oq=4Chan+AND+PHONES+IOWA+&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.19501j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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The MSNBC host made the bizarre claims despite her own colleagues at the network debunking 4chan’s involvement earlier in the day.

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I don't like Bernie-- he's kooky..

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"It looks like my Pete is taking it up the ass"

TIFIFY

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No matter who the Dems donors
they are Americans..

trumps donors seem to largely be Russians
and Saudi Arabia and in kind.

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Temple wrote:: No matter who the Dems donors
they are Americans..

trumps donors seem to largely be Russians
and Saudi Arabia and in kind.

Post Proof ...
You are a known liar

Give us proof that Trump's donors are largely Russians and Saudi Arabians ...and before you shove your paw in your pie hole and/or try to change the subject ...I've already looked at his donors in the 2016 campaign ..

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Grackle wrote:

Temple wrote:: No matter who the Dems donors
they are Americans..

trumps donors seem to largely be Russians
and Saudi Arabia and in kind.

[b]Post Proof ...
You are a known liar

grack..
your comebacks are bitter and nonsense,
you're coming off as a nursing home guy with dementia.
you are loudly stomping your feet in
a dotard tantrum speak, old man

sigh..
but--
I find it quite amusing / watching you unravel.

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Quote :

grack..
your comebacks are bitter and nonsense,

What exactly did I write that doesn't make sense to you? ..You spouted another claim with no facts to support it and I called you on it ... and as I suggested, you try to change the subject to me, my state of mind, and my age...of which you're also clueless

Quote :

you're coming off as a nursing home guy with dementia.
you are loudly stomping your feet in
a dotard tantrum speak, old man sigh..
but--
I find it quite amusing / watching you unravel.

ha ... Coming from the stooge who constantly floods the board with every mindless, petty anti Trump crap you can find on the net, coupled with your own banal parroting of the lamestream talking heads on the boob tube, emphasizing your irrational hatred of the president ..and call ME "bitter and unraveling" because I called you out on yet another lie ... The hypocracy of That is what's amusing.....Anyway

Still waiting for the proof that Trump donors are "largely Russian and Saudi Arabian", which is your statement/lie you're trying to avoid with your irrelevant drivel

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