20, 20, explain.

20 explain.

Zach Beacham Vox, we were all sitting here in the newsroom last night, expecting some

results from Iowa.

Was that our first mistake?

I think we were being pretty reasonable.

Last night when we were all yelling at the television, in some cases quite literally,

cough, cough, nataglaceous, cough, cough.

We had expected results at that point, reasonably based on every prior Iowa caucus, right?

These things don't normally take into well into the next day to count.

And at the time we're taping this, we still don't have a result.

And this is like Tuesday afternoon, yeah.

So like, by all precedent, this makes no sense.

So what went wrong last night?

When it comes to the actual source of the errors, it's actually not fully clear what went

wrong.

So I will give you two theories, one of which seems obviously true, but is disputed by

the Iowa Democratic Party and the other one is with the Iowa Democratic Party's official

line is, but we're not sure if it's true.

So the disputed version is that there was a problem with the app itself's basic functionality.

The app is a new thing that the Iowa Democratic Party was using to calculate and send in results.

And it was developed by this firm called, and I'm not making this up, it is called

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