The leaders of Iowa’s two major political parties have unveiled some of the details of the new “app” for reporting results of the February 1st Iowa Caucuses. Iowa G-O-P chair Jeff Kaufmann calls it a “new technological era” for the party-run precinct caucuses.https://soundcloud.com/wnax-radio/kaufmann-108a
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But Kaufmann says having the app developed by Microsoft has calmed most of those nerves. The company donated the programming time for the new app.
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Someone at each precinct will be designated as the person who may use a smart phone to tabulate and report their precinct’s results on Caucus night. Iowa Democratic Party chair Andy McGuire says while the “app” isn’t available to the public yet, precinct leaders are getting a tutorial.
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Cross-checks have been built into the system and it will be up to party leaders to trigger the “app” so the results will be available to the public. If the results as as “razor thin” as they were in the 2012 Iowa Republican Party Caucuses, the Iowa G-O-P’s chairman says they’ll wait as long as it takes to make sure the results are accurate. As you may recall, Mitt Romney was declared the winner on January 3, 2012, but two weeks later after a canvas of the paperwork submitted by most of the G-O-P precincts, Rick Santorum was declared the victor.