Up next: Nevada's caucuses
In response to the Iowa meltdown, Nevada State Democratic Party officials have said that they were abandoning the use of two different apps from the same vendor that failed in Iowa, and were looking at reverting to a paper-based voting and counting process. The NDP did not respond to Voting Booth's inquiries about its likely shift to paper, which would begin with early voting that starts on February 15.
The party had planned to use 1,000 party-owned digital tablets for those participants to vote online, according to the Nevada Independent. It had also planned on using the same app as in Iowa to send its early voting results to its caucus chairs at 250 sites at the start of the regularly scheduled caucus process on February 22, and to transmit the results once the caucuses were finished.
The Nevada Democratic Party, like that of Iowa, intended to have every caucus participant fill out a paper presidential preference card, and for caucus chairs to compile results summary sheets that every candidate's precinct captain would sign to affirm the results. But the system to file those results, and then compile and report statewide totals, is yet to be seen.
This article was produced by Voting Booth , a project of the Independent Media Institute.
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