Iowa Democrats gonna need to learn to code. https://t.co/WB8jrhr8ZZ

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 4, 2020

I know it's tempting to make jokes... or insinuations.

But there is absolutely no evidence that there is anything untoward happening in Iowa.

Calling elections "rigged" without any evidence boosts conspiracy theories and destroys trust in democracy.

Don't do it.

— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) February 4, 2020

Waking up to learn that we won’t even need Russia’s help to f*ck up this election https://t.co/ofifsAMAA0

— Mike Dudas (@mdudas) February 4, 2020

Without evidence, top Trump campaign officials — including sons @EricTrump & @DonaldJTrumpJr — are sowing distrust in the democratic process, suggesting the Democratic Iowa caucuses are “rigged.” pic.twitter.com/AlpFJTZYxw

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) February 4, 2020

Higher Ground removed Shadow's predecessor firm from its list of portfolio companies. An ACRONYM blog post saying Shadow would "exist under the ACRONYM umbrella" has been deleted. A page saying ACRONYM "launched" Shadow has been changed to "invested in" https://t.co/0sbd5tJP8p

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) February 4, 2020

“We should be begging for the most analog election technology possible,” writes @KevinRoose. “After all, every piece of technology involved in the voting process is a possible point of failure.” https://t.co/2O9KcD3jL1

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 4, 2020

NPR first reported on the IDP reporting app last month, noting the wide range of vulnerabilities it posed, from cybersecurity risks to the possibility of a clogged system. IDP declined to answer q's on the app's development or what testing it had undergone https://t.co/bDgLrWITE9

— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) February 4, 2020

Hey, radical idea: let's dump apps and electronic voting and go back to paper ballots like the rest of the civilized world? Some things don't need to be disrupted. https://t.co/k3z9eAhFJl

— Melinda Byerley (@MJB_SF) February 4, 2020

New: Shadow Inc. investors ACRONYM and Higher Ground Labs are scrubbing their websites of info linking them to the firm behind the app that fueled Iowa caucus chaos last night https://t.co/0sbd5tJP8p

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) February 4, 2020

This is not looking good. https://t.co/QgZXWcOPQy pic.twitter.com/ZSSVPKR2mJ

— Josh Harris Photography (@Heterodoxious) February 4, 2020

Here's a handy illustration of why election software is a terrible idea: This error message potentially tells anyone who's used SQL how to get access to this database to tinker with it however they want. https://t.co/Kg3O3HeBfZ

— Ari Schulman (@AriSchulman) February 4, 2020

And this, friends, is one of the many, many, many, many, many, MANY reasons not to digitise elections. https://t.co/t5pVYiROXh

— Claire Connelly (@_ClaireConnelly) February 4, 2020

1/2 This is disinformation about our election, directly debunked by Iowa Secretary of State @IowaSOS. It’s meant to sew distrust in our democratic process, which was Russia’s strategy too. Apparently news anchors are free to spread lies about our election, with no accountability. https://t.co/oKbspNC2bv

— Yael Eisenstat (@YaelEisenstat) February 4, 2020

absolutely love the convergence of the “hillary hid the server in ukraine” people & the “hillary rigged the iowa caucus against bernie” people. this is a woman who can do all that but somehow couldn’t beat a serially bankrupt pathological narcissist with a brain made of cat food

— kilgore trout, iowa caucus winner (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 4, 2020

This is a throwback when Trump began priming supporters to distrust the 2016 results on Election Day by inaccurately claiming widespread voting irregularities...until he won.https://t.co/D4mtRmAPQS https://t.co/9T7DCaIbnj

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 4, 2020

These conspiracy theories are killing me. The Iowa caucus is run by old white volunteers--what's more likely, that they rigged the entire primary or they had trouble with an app?

— Katie MacBride (@msmacb) February 4, 2020

every tech motherfucker in january 2017: how can i help. how can i make the world a better place. how about an app

[fast forward three years later]

— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) February 4, 2020

Love to see that everyone who is now on Twitter is:

1: an iOS and Android app developer
2: an Iowa native with decades of caucus experience
3: a professional investigative reporter

— Joshua Topolsky (@joshuatopolsky) February 4, 2020

The latest on delayed results: One precinct chair just told me he still hasn't been able to report his results because the phone app is not working and he's been on hold for the call hotline for more than 30 minutes. More from my story this morning https://t.co/DDuub1aDa3

— Tyler Pager (@tylerpager) February 4, 2020

The presidents large adult fail sons are doing their best to sow distrust which is odd because I was told they were busy running their fathers “totally unconnected” real estate “business.” https://t.co/gzuVVXRW0U

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 4, 2020

huffpost has reporting on the dem data firm behind the failed app. most notably: it was expensive, and it sure sounds like they're trying to use it in Nevada toohttps://t.co/cBD10BHpM9 pic.twitter.com/tSTEWXoKSN

— Katherine Krueger (@kath_krueger) February 4, 2020

Hours before the Iowa caucuses began, the state Democratic Party received reports that precinct chairs were struggling to use an app designed to help tally participation, causing confusion and fueling conspiracy theories on social media https://t.co/RMP8H7b3e8

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 4, 2020

??‍♀️
“the app repeatedly asked him to enter a security code...After he’d logged in, the app kept kicking him off. And once he was able to enter his precinct’s results he never got a confirmation that they had been received.”https://t.co/ZcPYuqzh0F via ⁦@nytimes⁩

— amna (@IAmAmnaNawaz) February 4, 2020

-App stops working a few hours before caucus beginshttps://t.co/vZosAks3yT pic.twitter.com/8qNTsL9EUY

— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) February 4, 2020

As the Iowa Democratic Party has confirmed, the underlying data and collection process via Shadow’s mobile caucus app was sound and accurate, but our process to transmit that caucus results data generated via the app to the IDP was not.

— Shadow, Inc. (@ShadowIncHQ) February 4, 2020

Importantly, this issue did not affect the underlying caucus results data. We worked as quickly as possible overnight to resolve this issue, and the IDP has worked diligently to verify results.

— Shadow, Inc. (@ShadowIncHQ) February 4, 2020

Shadow is an independent, for-profit technology company that contracted with the Iowa Democratic Party to build a caucus reporting mobile app, which was optional for local officials to use. The goal of the app was to ensure accuracy in a complex reporting process.

— Shadow, Inc. (@ShadowIncHQ) February 4, 2020

I'm usually on the other side but it's really outrageous to blame older, diligent people who handled this for years then got handed a bunch of confusing rules and bad tech by young people! https://t.co/qSCm0f36jz

— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) February 4, 2020

A completely sincere thought: Thousands of totally well-meaning people spent a year of their lives working for candidates and their reward was being part of a historic debacle, because the state party fumbled an app. It’s infuriating.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 4, 2020

We sincerely regret the delay in the reporting of the results of last night’s Iowa caucuses and the uncertainty it has caused to the candidates, their campaigns, and Democratic caucus-goers.

— Shadow, Inc. (@ShadowIncHQ) February 4, 2020

"Shadow," a name that connotes full transparency. https://t.co/9oE2rtz3V0

— Nicole Perlroth (@nicoleperlroth) February 4, 2020

Trump allies are seizing on Iowa's caucus chaos to push conspiracy theories that the results are rigged against Bernie Sanders. https://t.co/7L6fY47P90

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) February 4, 2020

Jesus Christ. I know this is hard to report on for non tech audience but I hope someone in the media picks up on just how badly written this app is. Total scandal. It’s like someone pocketed a bunch of money and paid someone on Upwork $100 to bang this out #Iowa https://t.co/F0EgY1hDXu

— Lauren de Sylva⓯⓯⓯¹⁰⁰㊵ (@laurendesylva) February 4, 2020

Lol no, Pete paid the company in July, but Iowa didn't hire them until November.https://t.co/bTYxzgCG3z

— Coinflip Technique Analyst (@pictarpostar) February 4, 2020

This just has to be beyond parody. The Shadow app was designed by “veterans of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign” who also lobbied for its use. And it gets better. Shadow’s registered office is at a WeWork building.https://t.co/pMBnw0mS36 via @financialtimes

— Ananmay Agarwal (@AgarwalAnanmay) February 4, 2020

Shadow is closely linked to Acronym, a non-profit group that uses voter data to power sophisticated digital advertising and generate Democrat-friendly ‘news’ stories via social mediahttps://t.co/VUNQsfpUhw

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) February 4, 2020

Starting an open access journal called “Deception” it’s gonna be great https://t.co/jhfM4Ctwpa

— 乇乂ㄒ尺卂 ㄒ卄丨匚匚 (VIII) (@NinaStrohminger) February 4, 2020

Chaos in Iowa shines spotlight on progressive tech start-up Shadow https://t.co/jAclijqXmo

— Financial Times (@FT) February 4, 2020

Why the liberals in the Democratic Party failed with their app: “I think the most important rule of thumb in introducing technology into voting is be extremely conservative.”https://t.co/Fj9v1IJLy9 via @Instapaper

— Mike Elgan (@MikeElgan) February 4, 2020

Robust, scalable not words that apply to Iowa Dem Caucus app https://t.co/aycdZL2wTj

— Sean Gallagher (@thepacketrat) February 4, 2020

Here's the janky app that fucked over America https://t.co/1ZpMAK0gSN

— Tim Marchman (@timmarchman) February 4, 2020

"Cybersecurity and voting experts said they were not surprised the app failed, and that the rollout of the app was so haphazard and irresponsible that its failure was a “predictable outcome.” https://t.co/krgh5dJyuA

— Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) February 4, 2020

The 2FA on the Iowa app did not work https://t.co/WjKI25IZtb pic.twitter.com/IjLXTqDLKL

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 4, 2020

New: here is the Shadow Inc. App that failed in Iowa last night. Screenshots of the error message; app is downloaded to Android via TestFairy https://t.co/WjKI25IZtb pic.twitter.com/k5BYkxRVhL

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 4, 2020

Update: we have the Iowa app APK and have successfully installed it onto some Android phones https://t.co/WjKI25IZtb

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 4, 2020

NEW: We have the name and screenshots of the Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night, it is worse than you could possibly imagine https://t.co/5wfBoYlI2S

scoop by @emanuelmaiberg

— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) February 4, 2020

Interrelated critiques of the Iowa app:

Cybersecurity and engineering malpracticehttps://t.co/3TriR1QJdM

Democratic Party mismanagementhttps://t.co/L0ZO4U8IjD

Techno-utopianism/solutionismhttps://t.co/52JN1LmYOs https://t.co/0gJISbQVOC

— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) February 4, 2020

Motherboard got the Iowa caucus app and...yikes. https://t.co/iV02UXqq1i pic.twitter.com/i6VNGZRmQp

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) February 4, 2020

the error message from the caucus app (obtained by motherboard via this great reporting https://t.co/fLvQxOhKSn) doubles as a great tabloid front page for this AM pic.twitter.com/JoJCUisHvZ

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) February 4, 2020

Hard to excuse distributing a caucus app to *VOLUNTEERS* without training and including an warning that says it's bad for your phone https://t.co/fLvQxOhKSn pic.twitter.com/XUwfgsuatv

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) February 4, 2020

This is great breakdown (including screenshots) of the garbage app Democratic leadership insisted on using for the Iowa caucuses https://t.co/SWYqojtNOQ pic.twitter.com/95pEAocGPC

— Laura Wagner (@laurawags) February 4, 2020

Thanks for flagging this @VICE @vicenews @motherboard article for me folks!https://t.co/WHopcvKQTF

— This American Adam (@adamconner) February 4, 2020

It's not clear exactly what happened, but it appears tech problems with the Democratic Party's reporting system are to blame. In particular, a new smartphone app for precincts to report back to party HQ apparently isn't working properly. https://t.co/JuV278ryix #CIO

— Jay Ferro (@jayferro) February 4, 2020

https://t.co/sedAqRjZSc

"This is not a hack or an intrusion," a party official says, "It's just the inevitable result of our poor decision making and our obstinate insistence to ignore expert advice."

— Matthew Roche (@SQLAllFather) February 4, 2020

Technology glitches prevent same-night release of Iowa caucus results

(Ars Technica is citing technology glitches, not hacking.) https://t.co/xVT5syuvvK

— Kassandra Seven (@KassandraSeven) February 4, 2020

Blockchain solves this

Technology glitches prevent same-night release of Iowa caucus results – Ars Technica https://t.co/iC0uSAPh5T

— MangoFarm (@MangoFarmAssets) February 4, 2020

Seems like the problem with Iowa's caucus app was less about vulnerabilities than usability. Which is so often the issue with software! https://t.co/mTgI44ab9B

— Scott Rosenberg (@scottros) February 4, 2020

buttigieg's campaign tells me that their $42,500 payment to shadow was for "text messaging services to help us contact voters and [is] totally unrelated to any apps they built for the party”https://t.co/TgvhenxeQX

— chris mills rodrigo (@chrisismills) February 4, 2020

Bad news for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign, Nevada is ditching the Mayo Shadow App. https://t.co/1Kmx8alqeW

— One Big Union (@ONEBIGUNION1) February 4, 2020

Nevada announces it will not use Shadow, the app the Iowa Democratic Party used for reporting results last night which led to chaos and confusion. The app was going to be used in the #Nevada caucus scheduled for February 22. #IowaCaucusDisaster https://t.co/PedEyw8X9i

— PROGRESSIVES 4 (@Democratic_Rep) February 4, 2020

The Nevada Democratic Party on Tuesday announced that it will not use the election results app which has been blamed for the delay in results from the Iowa caucuses.https://t.co/rL87ep3jhK

— Adrienne Cobb (@ImagineWorldas1) February 4, 2020

good idea https://t.co/ITe8KCq1aw

— Emanuel Eggberg (@emanuelmaiberg) February 4, 2020

#LearnToCode ???

Iowa Dem party blames caucus fiasco on ‘coding issue,’ vows to release results ‘as soon as possible’https://t.co/11RYpx4hZ0

— ??MAGA Meg?? (@CaliTrumpLady) February 4, 2020

And these are the people who want to run the entire country?https://t.co/vdTM9FRDd5

— Cindy Hyde-Smith (@cindyhydesmith) February 4, 2020

Iowa Dem party blames caucus fiasco on ‘coding issue,’ vows to release results ‘as soon as possible’https://t.co/3vFbokOkjH

— ❌Joe FreedomLover❌?????? (@JoeFreedomLove) February 4, 2020

BUSTED: If you ever wondered what it looks like when they STEAL an ELECTION in a socialist country, just look at what is going on with the Democrats in Iowa, as they panic and try to steal the election to prop up Biden, who is collapsing. https://t.co/68g0hdb4WI

— Eagle Pundit ? (@RealEagleBites) February 4, 2020

You can’t make this stuff up...

Iowa Dem party blames caucus fiasco on ‘coding issue,’ vows to release results in afternoonhttps://t.co/ZsAMpzhEmt

— Dr. Jack Daniel, PhD - ?? I FOLLOW BACK ?? (@JDPHD2) February 4, 2020

They cant even run a simple caucus, how can they run as country

Iowa Dem party blames caucus fiasco on ‘coding issue,’ vows to release results ‘as soon as possible’https://t.co/6o1Jm5cLTN

— An American ?? (@Joe7993) February 4, 2020

#Democrats can’t run a single States #caucus but tell us they can run #Healthcare #Studentloan and keep you safe with #guncontrol #Freestuff Iowa Dem party blames caucus fiasco on ‘coding issue,’ vows to release results in afternoon #RedNationRisinghttps://t.co/GAAHuCzzu6

— RNR Kansas (@RNRKansas) February 4, 2020

10 to 1 this is “fiasco by design” to be able to fix the results under a shroud of “everything went wrong” - such liarshttps://t.co/Q2WCNAJyfi

— HillNo! ?? (@GirlMom2x) February 4, 2020

Iowa Dem party blames caucus fiasco on ‘coding issue,’ vows to release results ‘as soon as possible’https://t.co/YlsBjhHMsA
?????????

— zillygirl (@zillygirlaz) February 4, 2020

Iowa Dem party blames caucus fiasco on ‘coding issue,’ vows to release results ‘as soon as possible’ | Fox News https://t.co/6eiCOMHtVt

— Trumplican ?? IFB KAG MAGA ?? (@LucyTrumplican) February 4, 2020