Name: Did Democrats deliberately sabotage their Iowa app? | Tech Wash
Uploaded: 2020-03-20T03:52:35.000Z
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Four days after the first vote of the Democratic primary race

of the app being used by volunteers to log the results.

What seems clear is that Pete Buttigieg and Bernie

Sanders are pretty much tied for first place.

all part of a wider conspiracy to keep Bernie Sanders down

by one of our viewers, Diego Arecha, who has asked:

that's the name of the app - "was deliberately

programmed to malfunction in order to muddy the results

Well, this theory seems to stem from revelations

that both Joe Biden's campaign and that of Pete Buttigieg

have given money to Shadow, the company behind this app.

Could they therefore have been paying for the app

to malfunction and help out their candidates?

Well, actually, the explanation seems far simpler.

allows their campaigns to send out thousands of text messages

to supporters and activists across the country all in one

And Shadow is one of just three main companies that offer it

Moreover, the conspiracy theories don't quite stack up.

Arguably the person who would have stood most

was Pete Buttigieg, whether he came first or second.

have done with the momentum boost of an unexpectedly

strong showing in the first result of the season.

about the state of the Democrats' campaign technology.

Four years after the Clinton campaign was taken by surprise

by a more aggressive and more nimble Donald Trump's social

media campaign, many in the party worry that they are still

labouring under a patchy and occasionally faulty campaign

With nine months to go until the presidential election,

that should be the real worry for Democratic supporters.