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Why exactly was this app needed at all? Couldn't a $13 node.js app or telegram bot have done the job of receiving a number from under 2000 people just as well?
by solarkraft 7y ago
Why exactly was this app needed at all? Couldn't a $13 node.js app or telegram bot have done the job of receiving a number from under 2000 people just as well?
- coredog64 7y agoAIUI, part of this is the result of 2016. There was an ask for more of the intermediate numbers rather than just straight up count.
- Stranger43 7y agoApps are cool man!!! It's kind of part of the general back to the 90ies mentality of the DNC, yes there absolutely no need for an custom app to do this especially given it's a caucus and not a closed box election, and as there is no reason for keeping the raw data secret doing the counting process, an signed message on any platform(it could and should be public) would be sufficient security. Heck telefaxes with an off the shelf OCR business grade solution at the other end would have been fast effective and likely cheaper but would have meant less opportunity for the Iowa party bosses to mingle with the well connected Washington apparatus. This just smell of vanity project where a bunch of low power politicians felt their status would increase with an successful app launch only to have the whole thing blow up in their faces.