memeorandum: App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested (New York Times)

2:25 PM ET, February 4, 2020

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This Is The Buzzy Democratic Firm That Botched The Iowa Caucuses — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results. — The tech arm of ACRONYM, a Democratic digital nonprofit group that has rapidly expanded in recent years …

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New York Times:

Bloomberg Plans to Double Ad Spending After Iowa Caucus Problem — The former New York City mayor, whose campaign is fueled by a multibillion-dollar fortune, will also expand his campaign's field staff to more than two thousand people. — DES MOINES — Michael R. Bloomberg's presidential campaign moved …

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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:

The most important Iowa result is in. Democrats should worry. — DES MOINES — No one knows how long it will be before it is clear which Democratic presidential candidate won the Iowa caucuses. — But the most important tally of the night has been reported, and it should worry Democrats.

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New York Times:

App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested — The state Democratic Party commissioned a new app to tabulate caucus results. It did not appear to go as planned. — DES MOINES — The app that the Iowa Democratic Party commissioned to tabulate and report results …

Tim Alberta / Politico:

The Death of Iowa — DES MOINES, Iowa — There can be no doubting it now, not after so many years spent in the crosshairs, not after active presidential candidates began challenging its privileged position atop the nominating calendar, and certainly not after Monday night's debacle …

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New York Times:

‘A Systemwide Disaster’: How the Iowa Caucuses Melted Down — Unexplained “inconsistencies” in results, heated conference calls and firm denials of hacking left the contest in a strange state of almost suspended animation. — DES MOINES — Sean Bagniewski had seen the problems coming.

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The Daily Beast:
Investors Rush to Downplay Ties to Firm Behind Iowa Clusterfuck

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VICE:
The Democrats Screwed America With an App No One Asked For

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Politico:
'It's a total meltdown': Confusion grips Iowa with no official results in sight

Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Democrats Did the Russians' Work for Them

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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: The Democratic Party's Crisis of Legitimacy May Be Just Beginning

Associated Press:
The Latest: At least 50% of Iowa results to come Tuesday

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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
The Only Safe Election Is a Low-Tech Election

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John Podhoretz / New York Post: Iowa caucus mess nothing compared to intra-Democratic Party chaos on the horizon

CNN:
Problematic app used in Iowa caucuses also set to be used in Nevada, sources tell CNN

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Los Angeles Times:
Partial Iowa caucus results to be released this afternoon; timing of full release uncertain

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Adam Edelman / NBC News: Nevada Democrats won't use app that caused Iowa caucus fiasco

Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Move Fast and Break the Caucus

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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Iowa's Democratic Disaster

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German Lopez / Vox:
“A total mess”: Critics call for an end to Iowa's first-in-the-nation status

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Scott Rosenberg / Axios:
Nevada Democrats say their caucus won't use Iowa's app

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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
After Iowa — Everyone loses. Literally everyone.

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Wall Street Journal:
Iowa Caucus Results Delayed by Apparent App Issue

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Washington Post:
Iowa caucuses 2020 live updates: State's Democratic Party says it will release results by 5 p.m. Eastern

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Axios:
Majority of Iowa caucus results expected Tuesday afternoon after app meltdown

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Frustration, questions as delays hamper Iowa caucuses

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Lex Haris / CBS News:
Republicans gloat over Iowa caucus meltdown

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

Trump Job Approval at Personal Best 49% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has risen to 49%, his highest in Gallup polling since he took office in 2017. — The new poll finds 50% of Americans disapproving of Trump, leaving just 1% expressing no opinion.

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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump just got the best polling news of his presidency

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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Watch: Iowa Voter Freaks Out on Buttigieg Precinct Capt. After Finding Out Mayor Pete is Gay — Nikki van den Heever, a caucus precinct captain for former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, tried to talk down an Iowa woman who was incensed to find out — in real-time during a caucus …

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TMZ.com:
Pete Buttigieg Iowa Caucus-Goer Finds Out He's Gay, Wants Vote Back

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Elizabeth Elkind / CBS News:
Amid Iowa caucus chaos, Pete Buttigieg claims victory and shrugs off criticism

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Iowa Might Have Screwed Up The Whole Nomination Process — In trying to build a forecast model of the Democratic primaries, we literally had to think about the entire process from start (Iowa) to finish (the Virgin Islands on June 6). Actually, we had to do more than that.

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Nick R. Martin / The Informant:

Threat against Adam Schiff — Hi, and welcome to The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in America, written and edited by me, Nick R. Martin. — A lot has happened in the past several days, so today's intelligence briefing is packed full of links and information.

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Trump is about to get a lot more dangerous. Here's what's coming. — When President Trump is acquitted by the Senate on Tuesday afternoon, he'll surely take from it the message that he can continue abusing his powers however he sees fit to corrupt the 2020 election. He now knows he'll face zero consequences.

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Brian Stelter / CNN:

White House excludes CNN from annual pre-SOTU lunch with news anchors — New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump's targeting of CNN is moving to yet another arena: The annual presidential lunch with television network anchors. — CNN anchors are being excluded from Tuesday's lunch, three sources said on Monday night.

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David Enrich / New York Times:

The Money Behind Trump's Money — The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort. — One Day in early 2017, Mike Offit went to the Yale Club in Manhattan for a lunch hosted by a group called Business Executives for National Security.

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Vanity Fair:

“I WANT THAT GODDAMN FUCKING STATEMENT”: Behind the Scenes of Trump's Secret Birther Implosion — Just before his first debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump's campaign decided it was time for him to revoke birtherism at long last. But, as Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng report in Sinking In the Swamp …

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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:

CREW Files Hatch Act Complaint Against Jared Kushner — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Washington — White House Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Jared Kushner violated the Hatch Act during a CNN interview on Sunday, according to a complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility …

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The White House:

Special Guests for President Trump's 3rd State of the Union Address — Below are the special guests who will join President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tonight for the President's third State of the Union. — From brave military families to hardworking local leaders, this year's guests come from many walks of life.

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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:

Trump's Jokes About Defying Election Results Could Create Chaos — There's a real possibility he could declare victory before all the ballots are counted. — As President Donald Trump plans a triumphant State of the Union address anticipating his likely acquittal by the Senate …

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Bloomberg says he hopes Sanders changes — Mike Bloomberg tells me he'd support Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump if those were his two options, but that people should understand Sanders at this moment is “so far to the left it's not practical” and that “what he wants to do would never get through Congress.”

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Sean Colarossi / POLITICUSUSA: Nicolle Wallace Tells Bernie Backers That Their Vicious Attacks On Fellow Dems Are Helping Trump

Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

‘An unacceptable and upsetting environment’: 2020 Democratic Host Committee under investigation — The two top officials overseeing Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention were sidelined Monday amid allegations of a toxic work culture.

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