So what's funny is that morning, the morning before the caucus has started, I sent a message

to one of the New York Times internal Slack groups and I said, guys, I'm going to be keeping

a really close eye on this app that they're rolling out in Iowa because everything I've

seen about it makes me think that there could be problems.

That's Shira Frankl who covers cybersecurity for the times and she's been hearing things

about the app that many precinct chairs were planning to use to report results to the

Iowa Democratic Party.

I had heard that they had insecurity tested it, that cybersecurity exports were really

concerned because they didn't know any of the details and already I'd seen some people

tweeting that they hadn't been able to download it onto their phones.

I didn't think it was going to be as bad as it was.

I mean, we had already filed an initial story saying, this app could be a problem.

We're not sure.

And then that really quickly turned into a, yep, this app is definitely a problem and

we have no idea how big or bad this problem is going to get.

In the last two minutes, we've heard from the Iowa State Democratic Party, they tell

us this.

They say that they are doing, quote, quality control.

The issue does seem to lie with this major coding error in the app.

Caucus officials saying it was confusing and difficult to download.

All of this is put the Democrats in a bind, not just over a complicated caucus results

that have dragged on, but also over a huge push within the party to regain a technological

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