Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App
by eropple on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:03PM
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I agree! I was trying to explain why these shops exist and are used in the general case, while also noting that this was a bad call here.
They were probably picked, to be frank, because they're the people that the folks in charge of picking a developer already had in their rolodex. Private organizations can do RFPs, but don't have to, and if you don't fully understand how bad a software project can go sideways, it's not going to be something you care too much about.
Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App
by mattrp on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:55PM
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There are roughly 1,700 precincts in Iowa give or take with one ballot each...any decent 10-key operator could have transcribed the entire caucus result by midnight last night...and they needed an app? I don't care how much they spent on it, $1 was too much.
Maybe for more complex projects this might be true, but any moderately competent developer could have built this.
I believe the Iowa DNC paid around ~$50K for this app. I have a hard time believing that isn't something any good dev shop would bid for given how simple the app is.