The Iowa Caucus : More Than an App and Tech Problem - The Atlantic
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/iowa-caucus-app-tech/606094
Its app didn’t solve much, but it did reveal a lot. It’s all fun and games until someone’s app messes up the Democratic Iowa caucus. Before yesterday’s debacle, “Shadow” was merely a playful name. A small team of political technologists had given it to their company when it launched early last year, largely as a reference to their primary product : Lightrail, which is supposed to make moving data among different campaign tools easier. Light and Shadow, get it ? That might have been clever in a (...)
