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This was a Democrat App, paid for and developed by the Iowa Democrat Party. Shadow Inc is owned by Democrats, related to elected Democrat Officials, endorsed by Democrat politicians. Don't blame the techies, blame the Democrats for insisting on how they wanted it to work.

the america of google and silicon valley cannot even nail down a voting platform?? 😂

NSA should create Online Voting website/App so citizens can vote from anywhere, and live broadcast results. Its easier and safer from being hacked.

Trump’s 2016 election is not proof of Russia’s or any other entity’s interference, but proof that the deepstate’s social engineering and other psy ops, just, don’t work! And THAT’s their real problem............. THAT, precisely, is what the ‘international coalition’, deepstate and totalitarian europeists, are in denial of!

Democrat incompetence and stupidity is ruining US elections.

Probably went to the lowest bidder seeing that's how government usually works for software

Bernie WON Iowa

the clinton-funded, buttigeig-owned 'shadow' app worked exactly the way it was programmed to work; with a temporal glitch designed to stop reporting in order to curb bernie's enthusiasm. clinton and the establishment hate bernie and will do anything, and i mean anything, to stop sanders. buttigeig is the clinton-owned deep-state manchurian candidate for sure. a corporate tool for the establishment and will do what he is told.

Not true about the need to create a national Election Day. Almost EVERY STATE HOLDS EARLY ELECTIONS FOR OVER A WEEK!!!!!!! INCLUDING OVER WEEKENDS!!! DO UR RESEARCH!!!!!

Before we discuss automatic voter registration and public holidays -- how about asking why we need an app in the first place to report election results. Because we can? Because it's new or modern? It seems to me that a robust system of pen, paper and telephone combined with redundancy and verification can work rather well in both a caucus in a state like Iowa. One thing is for sure -- you shouldn't have a single source of failure (like an app that is essential for reporting results).

Who thinks it’s impossible to hack an app is more gullible than a 5 year old and dumber than a bag of nails

It is reported that the results are complete and reported but go to Iowa Democrat Party web page and select caucus result tab: ooops, error 404, not found. So what are those results again???

We need paper ballots & count them publicly. Do not let the DNC have exclusive oversight of the vote counting!!

Most likely diversity was a major factor when selecting their software developers for that app LOL

Good explanation. Thank you

Woke

60k!!! Hahaha....that would buy you about 3 weeks development time (3 fte's) for the consultancy I work for

Funny how these “errors” are only ever in the establishment’s favour...

There's nothing more american than voter suppression lol.... few ballot machines/voting places, unregistering people under the guise of 'preventing voter fraud', and overall making the process extremely difficult and tedious is just the new version of those old literacy tests or 'only land owners can vote' rules

The fact that a large majority of voter purging/gerrymandering/anti-democracy policies come from Republicans, yet videos like these don’t call that out explicitly, is a sincere disservice. Saying “people in power don’t want you to vote” makes people think the entire government doesn’t want them to vote, when in reality it’s one political party that’s straight up anti-democracy.

No conspiracy.... Company called shadow .. Ex Clintonites... large Cheatin' Pete contribution? Really. Crazy conspiracy? I think not. It's all so dodgy

"Needs federal founding!" Thats not the cure for incompetence.

The DNC can't acomplish an internal election but they want to run the healthcare system.

It’s refreshing to hear analysis without personal commentary.

Here’s ‘the big picture’: dems don’t know how to run things. It’s easy

the problem being sanders was winning.

Voting over mail y'all

So Microsoft made you an app for 1 million dollars in 2016....why did you go ahead and make a new app and only think you needed to spend 60K?

You should be required to provide identification to vote.

It's not just the mess caused by unripe tech. The U.S. system in general is soooo weird!

There verge < the onion

USA can really learn something from India where 900 million ppl voted in 2019. Every voting day is a holiday. Why won't it be? Makes no sense.

I was like DAMN! Iowa? that's heavy!

The minute I heard “voting app” I knew there were gonna be some problems

In Germany we vote on a Sunday, seems like a good time for everyone to vote. And voter registration happens automatically when you register to the city which is mandatory.

Correction it is not the biggest threat to democracy. It does however seem to be a big problem for the US.

You know if you moved to representative voting or transferrable votes from first past the post, you could actually fix a lot of these problems. A "simple" fix would add tons of democracy, transparency and accountability and would very probably be cheaper as well.

Amazingly well said. Especially the second half of the video.

Nevermind past elections that weren’t disasters.

How is this sort of app + server backend not open source? Flutter/React with a docker container for the server can't be that hard.

while we in switzerland tested e-voting for over five years with millions of spending to decided in the end it‘s not save enough xD

Australia's system of election works very well. You turn 18 you register to vote, and its compulsory to attend/submit a ballot. You DO NOT have to write anything on the ballot... you can throw your vote away and leave it blank (or graffiti it). Elections are run by fully funded independent government commissions. Paper voting only, electronic voting is NOT available as it requires legislative changes that no party can agree on especially with how often they seen IT systems fail (they tried to do electronic census survey one year and it died a horrible public embarressment) :P Anytime from the electoral roll is closed (usually a week after the election date is called) to the day before polling day (which can be 3 weeks or more) * You can vote early by mail, free of charge. (especially overseas travellers or service men/women) * You can vote early by going to local polling centres usually 1 per town or surburb at a local government office. On Electrion day, (if you have not voted early), you vote on Saturday at one of many election booths set-up at local schools. If there is still a line at poll closing, everyone lined up can still vote (they can't turn anyone away who is waiting) If you fail to mail a voting card or attend a polling booth to get your name marked off the roll, you will be sent a letter declaring a fine for fail for its a $20 fine (Federal) and up to $80 in some state elections. You can also declare your unable to vote with medical certificate to squash the fine. (but its cheaper to pay the fine than go to a doctor)

Well said. If only everyone could hear this.

Why didn't they use app from 2016? It worked...

In other words both parties and our election systems are F##### up!

Why did mayor pete pay 45k dollars to shadow, inc?

The big issue is that the Dems have all of Silicon Valley behind them and they turned to their cronies instead for the app. Even if the app is on the up-and-up, the relationships of Shadow's execs make this debacle reek.

Mayor Pete gave Shadow 42000 dollars. There were many inconsistencies between the districts figures and the final results after the DNC took over the count, always in favour of Mayor Pete and to the detriment of Sanders and in some cases Warren. Everything about it stinks and to assume it's error rather than intended fuckery is now just being naive.

I'm in Taiwan for the month, and they had their national election in Jan. It was widely reported to be a very transparent process. Citizens of age are automatically registered to vote. Directions on where to go, what to bring on voting day were clearly communicated. Voting was by paper ballots using a stamp on clearly labeled ballots. Sample ballots were printed in the newspapers, so no confusion. Ballot counting was open to the public at each precinct for observation. There were numerous checks and double checks, upon arrival at the voting precinct and during vote counts. No chance of hacking paper ballots, and results were publicized the same night.

The US should follow these steps if they want their elections to be fair. 1. Set up a nationwide independent election commission that will conduct elections in every state and territory. 2. Use blockchain technology for maintaining electoral rolls in which voters will registered as voters and not as Democrats or Republicans. 3. Ban caucuses and go with only with Primaries where every voter has the right to pick presidential candidate from both the parties. 4. Use 100% offline voting machines with voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines.

Those fingernails 😱

China if your listening can you fix Iowa's 5G and voting app.

Odd, who owns the app company? Who agreed to buy it? Who actually created it and checked it? Why did DEMs turn down, not ask for DHS to independently check it for free? Just odd.

We spend millions on campaign ads, but can only muster $60k for a voting app.

I wouldn't think korea was actually ahead of this... In Korea you don't register to vote. You just.. show up (with your ID) and vote. The voting day is a national holiday, and even then we also have early voting that takes place for few days, again no need to register for early voting at all. Also for early voting you don't need to vote in your city/county/province. The system knows your constituency and automatically prints out the right paper for you. The only time you need to register to vote is when you're overseas (for overseas voting), or postal vote. Even if you're overseas korean embassy will set up a poll somewhere in that country to vote.

If you're gonna hire a company called SHADOW expect some shady work yo.

One Simple Answer! ☝️ Paper ballots. 📝

Outsource it to India and you can get it done in half the cost.

The GOP certainly doesn't want anything to change. Voter suppression is about the only way they ever win an election in the modern day.

Great job on this vid

You didn’t explain that former Clinton staffers got the Green light from DNC to develop this app for use in many states. Iowa was the test run but DNC was involved. Nevada was scheduled to use the same app. Just too generic and philosophical without enough documentation.

At the 40 second mark you state "it doesn't seem like a cyberattack or conspiracy". Shadow, the app's maker, refused vetting for the app by DHS(!), it's leadership team is a who's who of Hillary Clinton's campaign tech staff, and Mayor Pete paid a fairly hefty sum for "analytics" data( the only candidate to pay them over 5 figures by the way, also the only candidate to declare victory before caucus results were even being reported🤷‍♂️) Even a whiff of impropriety is too much at such an important crossroads for the Democratic party. While this doesn't seem to be a conspiracy from within the DNC itself it does look like a small, tight-knit group of disgruntled campaign staff, who were promised the world and then unceremoniously dumped when their meal ticket couldn't deliver, have taken their skills and attempted to offer themselves up as digital mercs, only to realize far too late that they were already being watched. I'm guessing some of your own paymasters may run in circles with these same people, hence the kid gloves when speaking about the Acronym(parent company and sole investor in Shadow) and Shadow(the app's maker) Blink twice in your next video at the 40 second mark if you need us to extract you 😂

Don’t think the tech is ready to handle Elections yet. Elections should be paper-based. Tech security is not foolproof.

Yang has those policies/solutions. Vote Yang 2020 🙌

But wait...I thought it was the Russians?

So you can do banking, pension, taxes over the web and you can't do voting? wow...you people are really easy to please and twist around. There is a reason America is going side ways.

I believe 100% that the screw up in Iowa was due to a cell phone app. Totally, completely, utterly believe it. Yep yep yep. It's as simple as that. Yep. Whatever.

Yes, I am registered to vote. I just checked now, online. I’ll do that again about a week before Election Day. Don’t trust these people, at all!

Cyberattack?! Are you joking? One of the candidate's campaign funded the App with the help of former Clinton campaign. And he suddenly jumps from the last place to contention for the first place. As if it's the first time the DNC is trying to screw *Bernie Sanders.*

Paper voting with volunteering people counting is the only way voting and counting should be done. You can watch your polling stations votes being counted by many regular people. Can you trust your vote is really counted when voting with a button push? Any form of electronic voting and counting can not and should not be trusted. Tom Scott has a good video talking about this. Please find and watch it.

Purposely broken, the corrective of true democracy disrupts established revenue streams.

Surprised the comments are not disabled

yee it seems like a tech problem. It seems like.

Wait, you do realize that this was totally a democratic convention problem not a US election system problem. You realize that right?

Its just common sense to be able to vote on our phones. Voting places are like malls, no one goes to them, and for the most part no one trusts the process anyway.

Pete and Biden, Iowa dem party and Nevada dem part donated to shadow. Shadow employees are connected to Hilary. Come on now, did they really give tens of thousands to this company for fun?

Corporate "liberal" media is lying by omission already. Buttigieg tried to rig the election and got caught. Now they're rigging Bernie's minority support. Blatantly racist.

02/06/2020 18:50 and isn't 100% yet

The problem wasn’t just the app it was that Democratic Party which is just as corrupt as their Republican counterparts.

You’re aware this elections are DNC and not federal or state level

Solution: Voting weekend, and paper + pen voting forms. Accuracy and availability are the most important things. I don’t mind waiting a week if that’s how long it takes to count the papers

You guys are hiding what’s obvious.. They stole again Bernie Sanders nomination.. The only big picture is that illegals won’t be able to vote no more in this country.. Voter ID is coming

A shoddy company making a database and app on the cheap, without major testing, and distributed to folks that honestly don't feel comfortable using a smartphone. All the stereotypes of older, white people not able to use technology became true.

Dems dems dems dems

I'm so glad I was born in EU

You should watch Tom Scott's video about this topic

Solution: Stop using IT infrastructure to do voting.

I’ll take the weekend voting if we reduce mail in ballots. I’ve been in a nursing home where the nursing station was filling out the ballots.

Democrats and Republicans alike know that the DNC is in the tank for Biden. No one cares about Iowa, move on already.

Quit apologizing for the Democratic party

Mobile and web developer here. This video is really good perspective into the challenges and realities of even minor software productions. One of the things I can't help but note is that I don't see why this couldn't have been a web app (it likely was some kind of Cordova or React Native already, anyways). You could cut the complexity of client distribution to a fraction and you'd have browser security in front of you. This gives small software firms a bad name. Shadow should be disbanded and all of those employees should go work for larger companies for a bit to see how to make software the right way in 2020.

Any kind of electronic voting is inherently flawed.

I normally enjoy watching Verge videos but when I heard "It is because a lot of the people in power just don't want everybody to vote" I felt sick. That affirmation lacks of context, facts and data that supports it and ends being just an attemp to mislead the audience. Russell needs to be more professional and to remeber the basics of being a journalist. The era in wich we are living demands of people in the media the maximum standars of ethics and professionalism.

Use PAPER!

Funny how the Republicans caucus went just fine !!??

Lol the Democrats ! Can't handle a app it's a total disaster Also the Democrats let us run your country and healthcare though !!!

Karma is a bit+€h

One huge problem: Republicans. High turn out means Republicans lose. This is by design

Russell is sharp, authentic and entertaining. Plus, at the risk of objectifying him as an entertainer, downright adorable.