Iowa and the future of election technology

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🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today on Post Reports: Tony Romm on the makers of the app that set back the results of the Iowa caucuses. Samantha Schmidt describes how sex education classes in some states are reacting to the #MeToo era. And Mike DeBonis on a surprise moment in the Senate impeachment trial.

An untested app rolled out and broke down during the Iowa caucuses. Read more about the company that delivered it.

Propelled by the #MeToo movement, a growing number of states are mandating consent be taught in sex education classes.

The Senate impeachment trial went pretty much as predicted — with one notable exception on its last day.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.2	Washington Post is Kolby.
0:07.0	Hi, it's Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.
0:13.3	This is Post Reports.
0:14.8	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.8	It's Wednesday, February 5th.
0:24.0	Today, how an untested app stumbled in Iowa using sex ed to teach consent and the vote
0:31.1	to acquit the president.
0:36.4	So just as it heads up, this is the difficulty.
0:38.7	Shadow is not the name of the app that they used.
0:41.4	Okay.
0:42.4	Yeah, it's, oh God, it has a special name.
0:44.2	Tony Rahm is a senior tech policy reporter at the post.
0:47.7	And he says that he did not expect that the biggest story to come out of the Iowa
0:52.0	caucuses would be a tech story.
0:54.7	The caucus is a pretty unique setting.
0:57.5	It's not like showing up at the polls and checking off the person that you want for the
1:01.6	presidency.
1:02.6	If people in gymnasiums, in schools, standing up for the candidates that they literally
1:07.1	went to see nominated on behalf of the Democratic Party.
1:10.2	And so counting that and relaying that back to one source isn't always easy, especially
1:15.6	when you're talking about dozens and dozens and dozens of precincts scattered across an
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