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Iowa caucus debacle verdict: Sometimes, there shouldn’t be an app for that
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English - February 05, 2020 11:30 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Here’s what we know about what happened earlier this week at the Iowa presidential caucuses. The Iowa Democratic Party hired Shadow Inc., a startup company, that built an app that clearly hadn’t been tested well enough before it was deployed in the real world. Host Molly Wood spoke with Charles Stewart, a professor of political science at MIT and a member of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, and asked him what parts of the voting process do need tech innovation?