{"id":73233,"date":"2020-02-04T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73233"},"modified":"2020-02-04T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:47:00","slug":"hacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73233","title":{"rendered":"Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Early yesterday evening, as I drove home from work, I heard National Public Radio&#8217;s wall-to-wall coverage of the Iowa Caucuses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As they &#8211; or one or another of their intervieweews, anyway &#8211; raved about the process, they kept mentioning an &#8220;App&#8221;.  One of the NPR anchors &#8211; who &#8220;covers&#8221; &#8220;election security&#8221;, we were told &#8211; mentioned that &#8220;the App&#8221; was of unknown origin; &#8220;who programmed the thing&#8221; was literally a secret.  The media hadn&#8217;t even been allowed to look at it, or at the people who developed it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What could possibly go wrong?&#8221;, I said to myself.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, Dems were in high spirits, including Tom Perez:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DNC\/status\/1224456542478462977\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, you saw the headlines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Duh-Moines.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Duh-Moines.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Duh-Moines-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>These are the people who want to run the healthcare system and plan the economy.  <br><br>I mean, the Democratic Party, not literally these three people.   Although they appear as if the work (l to r) for the IRS, the Department of Education and TSA.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I drove home around 11 last night, it was becoming clear the Hawkeye Cauci were turning into a Bolivian Cluster Cuddle, with &#8220;the App&#8221; not working, and with precinct chairs sitting on hold for hours, or just giving up and going home.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; what about &#8220;the App?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The caucus app blamed for the Iowa vote count chaos was created by tech firm Shadow, Inc.<br><br>Shadow&#39;s CEO Gerard Niemira, product manager Ahna Rao, CTO Krista Davis, and COO James Hickey all worked on the Hillary for America campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hA0JPYX5Ig\">pic.twitter.com\/hA0JPYX5Ig<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelCoudrey\/status\/1224659991107211264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; not only do people commit suicide when they cross Hillary, but so apparently do entire party units. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conspiracy theory <em>du jour<\/em> &#8211; Bernie was winning, and the Hillary\/Biden machine told the Iowa Machine to finesse the the results no matter what.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, Ben Shapiro notes, shouldn&#8217;t be a problem for Bernie or his Bros:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Iowa Democratic Party should just hand out participation trophies. And if Bernie bitches about it, they should remind him that equality of result is the ideal of fairness.<\/p>&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1224550875533692928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonder if Putin had anything to do with it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early yesterday evening, as I drove home from work, I heard National Public Radio&#8217;s wall-to-wall coverage of the Iowa Caucuses. As they &#8211; or one or another of their intervieweews, anyway &#8211; raved about the process, they kept mentioning an &#8220;App&#8221;. 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