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What Just Happened in Iowa?
A combo of a hastily rolled out vote recording app, lack of testing, unfamiliar users, and an urgent deadline -- how did this happen? Anyone got screenshots or firsthand knowledge?
- mtmail 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22232737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22232737 but it quickly disappeared from the frontpage because it's US politics I presume.
- non-entity 7y agoInterestingly, this is probably more relevant to HN than many of the political articles that reach the front page, albeit its probably still probably not very good
- Peroni 7y agoIt links to a deleted tweet so I assume that's why it got flagged.
- duxup 7y agoI think it's going to take time to figure out as most of the "information" comes from twitter and folks love to pass on rumors that fit their POV. A later look at it might provide a far better view.
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- hkiely 7y agoAll of the conservative commentators are comparing this application to the launch of healthcare.gov. However, that was lengthy piecemeal code. I have yet to hear anything about this.