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The Team Behind The Mobile App That Failed The Iowa Caucuses

The Iowa Democratic Party still has not released the full results of Monday’s caucuses after technical difficulties with a mobile app meant to transmit election data brought the party’s first presidential nominating contest of the year to a grinding halt.

There are new questions about who developed the app, and how it could fail so spectacularly.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Deepa Seetharaman (@dseetharaman), tech reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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