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Originally Posted by GirlySports

By not officially announcing anything.

App problems aside, what was the backup plan? Calling it into the DNC? The scruteniers know the result. NBC had reporters on site in some gyms reporting delegates.

Such as county 888
Sanders 4
Warren 3
Pete 2

So if county 888 calls in then those results, they should announced. It may take hours but eventually all 1600 will call in.

But officially they haven't announced one single result from the 1600 areas.

I think because they were counting on the app to tabulate they were not equipped to handle the call-ins from 1600 precincts. There have been plenty of reports of people waiting an hour on the phone. I heard on NPR this morning about precinct captains deciding to just go home and call this morning.

My assumption would be with how botched its been, they are just wanting to release everything at the same time instead of trickling it out.

"Once you report something, it's really hard to undo it, no matter how many retractions you print, no matter how many apologies you say, it's too late," Jones says. "From that point of view, someone hacking the reporting process, even though its purpose is entirely informal, not intended to have any permanent importance, is something that could be very disruptive."

You also have to remember that in a normal election, precincts report to the counties and then the counties report to the state. In this case, it doesn't look as if they had any sort of intermediary layer set up to handle all the volume.

Unlike many states in which local and state officials oversee the presidential primary election, in Iowa the state party is responsible for administering, staffing and funding the caucuses, relying primarily on trained but unpaid volunteers.

For what its worth, NPR and Iowa Public Radio have been reporting on this app issue for weeks. (thats where that above quotes comes from as well)

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/79590...smartphone-app

Cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said that the party's decision to withhold the technical details of its app doesn't do much to protect the system — and instead makes it hard to have complete confidence in it.