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Re:Iowa Democrats Should Have Known Better Than to Use an App by nwvg_7257 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:42PM (#22242391)
Why on earth did they make an app which they didn't even have time to get approved? This could have been done easily with a website. Honestly, they could have used Google Forms. A secure, off the shelf, and much cheaper option would have be to setup a G Suite workplace, mail security tokens to the caucus leaders, have them make accounts on a computer, and submit the results through a form.
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Re:Iowa Democrats Should Have Known Better Than to Use an App by sky_rw on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:48PM (#22242441)
You can't bill 10's of thousands of dollars to a donation funded political organization if you do that.
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Re:Iowa Democrats Should Have Known Better Than to Use an App by TylerE on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:50PM (#22242458)
Why not?

"IT Services and Support"

The real issue with that approach would probably be a requirement to have a computer on site.

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Re:Iowa Democrats Should Have Known Better Than to Use an App by sky_rw on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:41PM (#22243212)
Ironically the real issues is that they probably weren't able to bill enough.
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Re:Iowa Democrats Should Have Known Better Than to Use an App by lalabert on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:49PM (#22242452)
Errrr exactly ... and I’d love to see the emails from folks going ... don’t do this!
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