{"id":176967,"date":"2020-02-04T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/04\/closing-the-barn-door-before-the-cow-leaves\/"},"modified":"2020-02-04T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:53:00","slug":"closing-the-barn-door-before-the-cow-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/04\/closing-the-barn-door-before-the-cow-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the Barn Door Before the Cow Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/iowa-caucuses-2020-live-updates\/2020\/02\/04\/23561bd6-4707-11ea-bc78-8a18f7afcee7_story.html\">is dropping the vote tabulation system that failed so ignominiously in Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All things considered, I&#8217;d go after Shadow, Inc. for a refund:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Nevada Democratic Party said Tuesday that it will not use the app at the center of the technical difficulties causing delayed results in Iowa\u2019s caucuses.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cNV Dems can confidently say that what happened in the Iowa caucus last night will not happen in Nevada on February 22nd,\u201d the state party\u2019s chairman, William McCurdy II, said in a statement. \u201cWe will not be employing the same app or vendor used in the Iowa caucus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The app was developed by Shadow, a software company in Denver. Representatives for the firm didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoever at the DNC decided to push these guys on various state parties should be fired \u2026\u2026\u2026 Out of a cannon \u2026\u2026\u2026 and into the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada is is dropping the vote tabulation system that failed so ignominiously in Iowa. All things considered, I&#8217;d go after Shadow, Inc. for a refund: The Nevada Democratic Party said Tuesday that it will not use the app at the center of the technical difficulties causing delayed results in Iowa\u2019s caucuses. \u201cNV Dems can confidently &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,375,578,405,533],"class_list":["post-176967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-incompetence","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}