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Re:Mysterious startup Shadow under scrutiny after Iowa caucu... by fuqmachine on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:22PM (#22240504)
Bottom line is that the quality of the app used in an election that could decide the president for the next 8 years was left up to high school level coding from an untested, uncontested company, with "software developers" with little to no credentials.
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Re:Mysterious startup Shadow under scrutiny after Iowa caucu... by elicash on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:26PM (#22240548)
Oh yeah. Terrible decision-making. There shouldn't have been an app at all. And not only shouldn't it exist, it was poorly done. More details keep coming out about that:

https://twitter.com/AdrienneRoyer/status/1224796527392108545

I have bigger issues with caucuses in general and in Iowa specifically disenfranchising people from being able to vote at all, but that doesn't excuse that this was also terribly implemented.

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