Iowa’s Voting App Meltdown Shows That Tech Won’t Save Democracy

Voting apps have the power to change the process — in more ways than one

Colin Horgan
GEN
Published in
5 min readFeb 6, 2020

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TThis week, an app designed to gather and report caucus results in Iowa for the Democratic Party did more than just fail — it exposed an inability to understand what technology means to democracy.

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