According to a report released on Feb. 5, a mobile software application that was devised to help calculate the total number of votes in the Iowa Democratic caucus reportedly malfunctioned, resulting in the Democratic Party having to delay its public reporting of last Monday’s results. It was also revealed that a coding issue with the software resulted in the app relaying results that were either partially incorrect or unreliable.
The application under scrutiny was designed by a relatively unknown firm called Shadow Inc. The startup was founded by Gerard Niemira and Krista Davis, who played a major role in promoting Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. In January 2019, the company was bought out by Acronym, a pro-Democrat nonprofit founded in 2017.
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