The trouble at the Iowa caucuses started early yesterday when volunteers said they were “struggling” to download or use the app just a few hours before the voting started
’s 2012 White House campaign had its own brush with disaster when an app called Orca, which it used for turning out voters, broke down on Election Day in November, his former chief digital strategist Zac Moffatt recalled Tuesday.
Those reports stunned the cyber experts, who said they bore all the signs of a rush to deploy inadequately tested software without fully training the users. “As a friend wrote, Macy's doesn't [roll] out a new cash register the day before Black Friday — you test it out in a limited market and figure out the problems without the pressure,” said Jeremy Epstein, a voting security expert who is the vice chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery's U.S. Technology Policy Committee. “Writing reliable software is very hard, and I'd say this is a case in point.
The Iowa Democratic Party said in a statement Tuesday that “in preparation for the caucuses, our systems were tested by independent cybersecurity consultants." But that didn’t satisfy any of the doubts.
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