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The Shoestring App Developer Behind the Iowa Caucus Debacle

Shadow, founded by a former Hillary Clinton staffer and connected to the well-funded nonprofit Acronym, brought the first major nominating contest of the election season to a halt when its app failed to work as planned.

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Hasnain says:

Sigh. This whole story is nuts and keeps getting worse.

“Officials at the Democratic National Committee, who were alarmed that the rushed app might not be ready for rollout, pressed Iowa to pay for an independent security review of the Shadow app, which found very basic bugs, a person familiar with the matter said.”

Posted on 2020-02-08T13:26:08+0000