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Chapter 20: The 2020 Iowa Caucus App: An Unreliable App that Caused National Embarrassment

Chapter 20: The 2020 Iowa Caucus App: An Unreliable App that Caused National Embarrassment

pp. 280-285
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Summary

On Monday, February 3, 2020, the results of the Iowa Democratic Party Caucus, the first caucus in the US election cycle, were delayed as a result of bugs in the software used to report the results. This software (the IowaReporterApp) was not properly tested prior to the elections, and the whole reporting system failed during the event.

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