{"id":23857,"date":"2015-06-09T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23857"},"modified":"2015-06-09T08:13:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:13:05","slug":"those-who-count-the-votes-decide-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23857","title":{"rendered":"“Those Who Count the Votes Decide Everything”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, remember how Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were collectively the largest donor to the Clinton Foundation<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Well, guess who’s going to be providing the technical infrastructure to tally vote totals for the Iowa Caucuses<\/a>?<\/p>\n

On Friday, the state\u2019s Democratic and Republican partiesannounced a new system that will be used to count the votes cast by Iowans during the complicated election process. Authorized precinct representatives will use new apps to report results to their party headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa\u2019s capital, when the election takes place early next year.<\/p>\n

The system is powered by Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud platform and was built by the tech giant in collaboration with its partner InterKnowlogy, which also made CNN\u2019s Magic Wall election result reporting tool. It replaces a set-up that required precinct representatives to call into automated phone systems with no way of authenticating whether the person was authorized to do so and then record votes using their phone\u2019s keypad. Representatives also mailed paper records to the party\u2019s central office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I were one of Hillary’s primary opponents, I’d think I’d want to look at that source code before trusting those tallies to be fair and accurate… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, remember how Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were collectively the largest donor to the Clinton Foundation? Well, guess who’s going to be providing the technical infrastructure to tally vote totals for the Iowa Caucuses? On Friday, the state\u2019s Democratic and Republican partiesannounced a new system that will be used to count […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[1980,2091,2727,2661,1441,806],"class_list":["post-23857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections","tag-2016-election","tag-2016-presidential-race","tag-bill-gates","tag-clinton-foundation","tag-iowa","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23872,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23857\/revisions\/23872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}