Statewide Iowa — (RI) — Iowa Democrats announced Tuesday morning the smartphone app developed to collect Caucus Night results had a coding error.
Party officials say the app was taking in data correctly, but spitting out only partial data. Iowa Democratic Party chairman Troy Price says there was no hacking of the data and the party discovered the inconsistencies due to the quality checks it had always planned to do. Price says the coding glitch has been fixed and all the paper records of voting in more than 1600 precincts is verifying results. The party plans to release results as soon as possible today.
Iowa’s top Republicans have issued a written statement of support. Governor Reynolds, as well as Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, said they have “complete confidence every last vote will be counted.” However, on a conference call with reporters this morning, Grassley questioned the “new approach” Democrats are using for this year’s results.
