8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (13)
#13414845 at 2021-04-13 07:39:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16992: It's Lincoln And Jefferson Davis All Over Again Edition
The Banality of the Democratic Donor Class
Feb 6, 2020·3 min read
Serious question for all you so worried about Russia/Putin's influence on our elections. Do you think it's OK that this woman (Tara McGowan) is the CEO of a company that is the "sole investor" in the company that designed the app meant to *transmit* results of the Iowa Caucus? Are you OK that she is married to, Michael Halle, "a senior strategist with the [Pete] Buttigieg campaign"?
This screenshot is part of her long 'defense' thread on her involvement with her company Acronym (link in comments to whole thread). What is stunning about this tweet in particular is how she admits being part of an organization spending $75 million to defeat Trump. The fact that she *boasts* of this level of financial influence shows the utterly banal nature of Democratic Party elite donor culture. To be clear, this is not a "conspiracy" - this is ordinary, totally normal activity among the donor class - amassing huge sums of money from very rich people to influence political outcomes.
And, these people are *all friends.* On Sunday - *the day before the caucus* - McGowan tweeted out photos of herself at a party with her husband Pete staffer and Troy Price - the head of the Iowa Democratic Party. The same organization that bought the app and has botched the results.
According to Lee Fang's reporting, her "organization" is basically a dark money SuperPac raising millions from Wall Street and Hollywood elites.
"Acronym, which includes a hybrid model of a 501(c)4 entity that does not disclose donors and a Super PAC that does, has been a favorite for deep-pocketed Democratic donors. Donald Sussman, the founder of Paloma Partners, and Michael Moritz, a partner at Sequoia Capital, each donated $1 million to Acronym last year. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg gave $500,000. Investor Seth Klarman, once a major donor to Republican causes, gave $1.5 million to Acronym."
Finally, the kicker: the app problem has been described as a "coding error". But, there are also reports that it was *transmitting* incorrect results. A CNN report describes the experience of a precinct chair:
"A precinct chair in Iowa said the app got stuck on the last step when reporting results. It was uploading a picture of the precinct's results.
The chair said they were finally able to upload, so they took a screenshot. The app then showed different numbers than what they had submitted as captured in their screenshot."
https://medium.com/@Matthuber78/the-banality-of-the-democratic-donor-class-510b8821c1ec
#8184383 at 2020-02-19 17:11:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10477: Iwo Jima Remembered Edition
Sanders campaign wages recount fight in Iowa
February 19, 2020 11:42 AM
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The fight over who won the Iowa caucuses isn't over just yet after Bernie Sanders's campaign asked for a recount.
Sanders, 78, and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, 38, both claimed victory in the first Democratic primary contest this month after Buttigieg received the most delegates, while the Vermont senator notched up the most raw votes statewide.
But with the delegate count forming the only path toward the 2020 presidential nomination, Sanders's camp wants another partial review of the results after the outcome of a recanvass released late Tuesday left Buttigieg with 563.207 "state delegate equivalents," the number by which national delegates are allocated, to his 563.127. As it stands, Buttigieg has 14 delegates to Sanders's 12.
"While it is clear that Sen. Sanders won the popular vote in Iowa by 6,000 votes, the recanvass process reduced the State Delegate Equivalent deficit by 97 percent," Sanders campaign spokesman Jeff Weaver said in a statement.
Weaver added, "We now believe a recount will give Sen. Sanders enough State Delegate Equivalents to put him over the top by that metric as well. We want to thank the people of Iowa, our supporters, our volunteers and everyone who made this possible."
The Iowa Democratic Party, under the new leadership of Mark Smith, late Tuesday, published the results of the limited-scope recanvass requested by the Buttigieg and Sanders teams. But the party announced the changes to official outcomes at 29 precincts, either because of incorrect caucus math or misapplication of caucus rules, didn't result in a national delegate reallocation.
Representatives for Buttigieg have until Wednesday night to join Sanders in asking for another review.
Smith was elected chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party over the weekend after Troy Price quit following the chaos of the caucuses.
On the day of the Feb. 3 contest, complaints emerged regarding a mobile application the Iowa Democratic Party rolled out to expedite the reporting process. When results weren't quickly returned that night, media speculation that a snafu had occurred was confirmed. The party then slowly released figures as they became available over the course of the next week, with those records still containing inconsistencies between initial and final caucus alignments the first time the mostly volunteer organization disclosed the full data set. The fiasco became a national embarrassment, even drawing criticism from Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez.
While the Democratic field is focused on this Saturday's caucuses in Nevada and beyond, top-tier candidates are bracing for a protracted fight to become the party's standard-bearer, including Michael Bloomberg, who officially enters the race on March 3, or Super Tuesday..
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sanders-campaign-wages-recount-fight-in-iowa
#8119072 at 2020-02-13 01:12:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10393: IRL done, Ready to kickback, dig, and all things Nightshift Edition
Iowa Democrat Party Chair Resigns After Caucus Debacle
Troy Price, the Iowa Democrat Chair announced his resignation on Wednesday following the caucus train wreck.
The Des Moines Register reported:
"While it is my desire to stay in this role and see this process through to completion, I do believe it is time for the Iowa Democratic Party to begin looking forward, and my presence in my current role makes that more difficult. Therefore, I will resign as chair of the Iowa Democratic Party effective upon the election of my replacement," Price said in a letter to the Iowa Democratic Party's State Central Committee
The Iowa Democrat caucuses were a complete disaster.
The Iowa Dem party's Hillary-funded app crapped out during the caucuses a week ago and no one is really quite sure who won the state.
Two days after the Iowa caucuses, partial, fudged results were released.
The Democrat Party says Pete Buttigieg, the Bernie bots insist it was stolen.
On Monday during the Iowa Democrat Party's latest presser the Democrat sign crashed to the floor.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/just-in-iowa-democrat-party-chair-resigns-after-caucus-debacle/
#8118301 at 2020-02-13 00:01:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10392: Anons are the Calm in the Panicking Storm Edition
Troy Price, the chairman of Iowa's Democratic Party, resigned after overseeing a caucus debacle in which results were late and filled with errors
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1227734162674720768
#8117756 at 2020-02-12 23:10:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10391: Schumer Panicking in D.C. Edition
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CONFIRMED
>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/us/politics/Troy-Price-resigns-iowa.html
Troy Price, Iowa Democratic Party Leader, Resigns Over Caucus Debacle
#8117719 at 2020-02-12 23:06:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10391: Schumer Panicking in D.C. Edition
Iowa Dem Chair Resigns after caucus debacle
Link >>> https://www.teletrader.com/iowa-democratic-party-chair-resigns-following-caucus-debacle/news/details/51239739?internal=1
Chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party Troy Price resigned following the Iowa Caucus, which was mired with reporting issues that resulted in a delay to the final results. State Representative Mark Smith is expected to replace him as interim chairman.
"While it is my desire to stay in this role and see this process through to completion, I do believe it is time for the Iowa Democratic Party to begin looking forward, and my presence in my current role makes that more difficult," Price stated.
More to come…
#8095403 at 2020-02-10 21:32:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10362: Be Loud and Be Heard! Edition
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And on Sunday, McGowan tweeted pictures from a birthday celebration that included her husband
and Troy Price, the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party.
#8090945 at 2020-02-10 13:13:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10356: TrumpStock 2021 Edition
How the Iowa Caucuses Became an Epic Fiasco for Democrats
WSJ
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/us/politics/iowa-democratic-caucuses.html
One of the authors of this piece has anon's phone number and can call anytime he or she wants.
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An hour after the caucuses began, the Iowa Democratic Party chairman, Troy Price, huddled in another room with other officials, none of them with a clear strategy to manage the unfolding chaos or answers to share with increasingly exasperated presidential campaigns. A conference call with the campaigns ended with Mr. Price hanging up on them, amid accusations that caucus results in Iowa may have been incorrectly reported for decades.
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#8082946 at 2020-02-09 17:11:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10346: This Could Be Your Title; Learn to Bake Edition
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And on Sunday, McGowan tweeted pictures from a birthday celebration that included her husband and Troy Price, the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party.
#8036472 at 2020-02-05 18:03:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10286: SQTU 2020 and SOROS behind the Shadow Edition
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Could the Zetas say what is happening in Iowa? This is a complete failure for the Democrats. It is hard to imagine that Trump will not win the election. The only threat to him is a large-scale financial crisis that is about to happen. [and from another] https://www.foxnews.com/politics/app-used-in-iowa-democratic-caucus-fiasco-linked-to-former-clinton-campaign Shadow, a tech firm that describes itself as a group that creates "a permanent advantage for progressive campaigns and causes through technology," is the company that created the Iowa Democratic Party's app. At least the COO, CEO, CTO and a senior product manager at Shadow all worked for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. [and from another] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-04/clinton-campaign-vets-behind-2020-iowa-caucus-app-snafu An app created by a tech firm run by veterans of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign is taking heat for the unprecedented delay in reporting Democratic caucus results from Iowa. State Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price blamed the problem on a coding error. The firm behind the app reportedly is Shadow, an affiliate of ACRONYM, a Democratic nonprofit founded in 2017. In addition to the tech systems being used to tabulate results, we are also using photos of results and a paper trail to validate that all results match. [and from another] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dhs-head-claims-iowa-democrats-refused-to-let-department-test-failed-caucus-app Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said that Iowa Democrats refused when the department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency offered to test the app to ensure its security. [and from another] https://theintercept.com/2020/02/04/sanders-campaign-release-caucus-numbers-iowa-buttigieg/ The Sanders campaign reported that it received 29.7 percent of the vote, closely followed by former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 24.6 percent. Sen. Elizabeth Warren came in at 21.2 percent, and former Vice President Joe Biden was fourth at 12.4 percent. [and from another] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/01/des-moines-register-poll-not-released-after-apparent-mishap-110284
The 2020 Iowa Democratic primary caucus disaster was not a "coding error", as claimed by the Iowa Democratic Party Chairman. Was the code not tested? There are many clues that this was a rigged election that blew up in front of the whole world. First there was the odd Des Moines Register poll withheld from publication. The excuse was a flawed survey, perhaps leaving off one of the candidates. How likely is this? The survey was withheld as it showed the true ranking of Biden, which the crooked DNC is pushing to be the front runner.
Then there is the aspect of the new software application, designed to ensure that photos of the paper trail matched the results reported. Coded by a software company born during the 2016 Hillary campaign, the code to switch votes to Biden was supposed to smoothly and simultaneously corrupt the paper trail photos. Thus any complaints by caucus goers who had recorded a different result were to be silenced. Of course Shadow and the Iowa Democratic Party declined Homeland Security assistance to vet the software.
What went wrong? The software was not hacked by human hands, but was hacked by ourselves, the Service-to-Other Zetas, just as we have assisted the integrity of all US elections since 2006. Software code is, after all, just binary data, such that changing a few bits of key bytes can disable the code. Our goal was to cause any deletion of voting data to falter, so that the counts and the paper trail did not match. This froze the election fraud in the middle of a crime, before the evidence of a crime could be wiped away. The actual results have now been collected from the caucus managers.
#8032236 at 2020-02-05 07:37:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10281: Q'd on Past and Future, It's gonna be Biblical! Edition
Reporter hollers at Iowa Democratic Party chairman: 'How can anyone trust you now?'
The chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party attempted to dispel doubts surrounding caucus results released the day after chaos engulfed the first-in-the-nation contest.
As Troy Price finished his opening remarks about the delay in vote tallies, which were caused by a failed phone app on which the state party spent more than $60,000, a reporter immediately questioned the pending results.
"How can anyone trust you now?" yelled a reporter from the press box.
"We have been working day and night to make sure that these results are accurate," responded Price. "This was a coding error in one of the pieces on the back end, but the raw data, the data that has come in, is secure, and I can assure Iowans of that."
Campaigns have voiced their frustration with the process in Iowa, and some media analysts suggested that the state lose its status as the first nominating contest after bungling the vote. Staff and volunteers on Bernie Sanders's campaign complained of bias against the Vermont senator at several precincts.
Price released votes accounting for 62% of Iowa precincts that show Pete Buttigieg with a narrow, preliminary lead over Sanders.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/reporter-hollers-at-iowa-democratic-party-chairman-how-can-anyone-trust-you-now
#8031480 at 2020-02-05 06:17:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10280: SOTU and Aquitmas Coming! Edition
Reporter hollers at Iowa Democratic Party chairman: 'How can anyone trust you now?'
The chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party attempted to dispel doubts surrounding caucus results released the day after chaos engulfed the first-in-the-nation contest.
As Troy Price finished his opening remarks about the delay in vote tallies, which were caused by a failed phone app on which the state party spent more than $60,000, a reporter immediately questioned the pending results.
"How can anyone trust you now?" yelled a reporter from the press box.
"We have been working day and night to make sure that these results are accurate," responded Price. "This was a coding error in one of the pieces on the back end, but the raw data, the data that has come in, is secure, and I can assure Iowans of that."
Campaigns have voiced their frustration with the process in Iowa, and some media analysts suggested that the state lose its status as the first nominating contest after bungling the vote. Staff and volunteers on Bernie Sanders's campaign complained of bias against the Vermont senator at several precincts.
Price released votes accounting for 62% of Iowa precincts that show Pete Buttigieg with a narrow, preliminary lead over Sanders.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/reporter-hollers-at-iowa-democratic-party-chairman-how-can-anyone-trust-you-now
#8023997 at 2020-02-04 21:48:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10270: The Gifts That Keep On Giving Edition
'''Iowa caucuses app used to tally votes not vetted by DHS, official says
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which was established in 2018, offered to test the app from a 'hacking perspective'
The Iowa Democratic Party declined to allow officials at the Department of Homeland Security to vet the app intended to tally the votes during Monday's botched first-of-the-nation caucuses. The new mobile app, created by tech firm Shadow, is currently being blamed for the unprecedented chaos during the first nominating contest of the 2020 election, when "inconsistencies" in reporting delayed the results. Party officials said they expect results to be released Tuesday afternoon, though precinct results are still being reported.
Acting DHS chief Chad Wolf told Fox News on Tuesday that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which was established in 2018, offered to test the app from a "hacking perspective." "They declined, and so we're seeing a couple of issues with it," Wolf said. "Right now, I'd say we don't see any malicious cyber activity going on."
Troy Price, the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, said in a statement on Tuesday morning that officials have "every indication" the app was not hacked, noting the systems were tested by independent cybersecurity consultants prior to the caucuses on Monday. But, he said there were "inconsistencies" in the results, the underlying cause of which was "coding issues." "We determined with certainty that the underlying data collected via the app was sound," Price said. "While the app was recording data accurately, it was reporting out only partial data. We have determined that this was due to a coding issue in the reporting system. This issue was identified and fixed. The application's reporting issue did not impact the ability of precinct chairs to report data accurately."
In two separate payments last year, the Iowa Democratic Party paid Shadow, a tech firm that last year joined with ACRONYM, a liberal nonprofit group focused on digital messaging, more than $63,000 for "website development," according to state campaign finance records. According to the Huffington Post, citing a source with knowledge, those payments were for the app the caucus site leaders were supposed to use to upload the results at their locales. During an interview with NPR in January, Price declined to provide more details about which company designed the app, or about what specific measures had been put in place to ensure the security of the system. The party worked with the national party's cybersecurity team, and with Harvard University's Defending Digital Democracy project, NPR reported. The app was supposed to streamline the voting contest: Caucus-goers would still make their preferences known on paper, but those tallies would then be transmitted from the apps on precinct volunteers' smartphones to the computers and websites that report the results.
Cybersecurity experts previously questioned the party's decision to withhold certain details about the app and how they planned to protect it from possibly malicious intrusions. "If there is value, there will be an attack," Duncan Buell, a computer science professor and voting security expert at the University of South Carolina, told Politico, prior to the Iowa caucus chaos. "And whether to change the results or just to disrupt the process, there is value in attacking the Iowa caucus."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/iowa-caucuses-app-votes-dhs
This Is The Buzzy Democratic Firm That Botched The Iowa Caucuses
Shadow, a Democratic tech firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iowa-caucus-app-shadow_n_5e390191c5b687dacc722824
2020's first election security test: Iowa
The nation's first caucuses Monday may be almost as low-tech as it gets, but it still faces threats from hackers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/02/iowa-2020-election-security-110126