An official who was participating in Iowa’s Democratic caucus Monday said the app set up to help tabulate the results simply wasn’t working.
The chairman of a caucus in Story County told the Wall Street Journal that the app “wasn’t working at all” and people were forced to call results in, leading to the backlog.
“We weren’t set up for everyone to have to use the phone, it sounds like,” Adin Mann told the paper.
He added, “I’m at home trying to get the paperwork organized all the way they want it. It’s scattered all over the room here.”
Results from the caucus were delayed for hours Monday night because of “inconsistencies” in the data, the state party said in a statement.
The Iowa Democratic Party said it was using a new app to count the results, which was backed up by traditional paper tabulation.
The reporting process was massively delayed because of the two systems — but the state Democratic Party said the app was not hacked and did not fail during the process.