What We Know About The App That Delayed Iowa's Caucus Results
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Iowa's Democrats had hoped that a new smartphone app designed to collect the results of its caucuses would let the party get the count out to the public more quickly.
But as of Tuesday afternoon, the state's Democratic Party was still struggling to report the outcome of Monday night's caucuses, blaming the delay on problems with that app. The party said it plans to release "the majority of caucus results" by 5 p.m. ET Tuesday and will issue the rest of them "as we are able to."
The party said it has determined "with certainty" that "the underlying data" via its new app "was sound." In a statement Tuesday morning, party chair Troy Price said the app was recording data accurately, but "it was reporting out only partial data" because of a "coding issue in the reporting system."
Party staff then turned to entering data manually, which took longer than expected, Price said.
Computer experts and caucus chairs said there was not enough training on using the app before Monday's caucuses, which are chaotic enough as it is.
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