Breaking News on Rachel Maddow: Iowa Caucus Phone Jamming

[Richluu]

In Iowa on caucus night, Trumpers organized to jam our phone lines to make the backup plan for app failure, jam. That's why caucus leaders couldn't get through.

Rachel showed pictures of their messaging encouraging each other to keep calling because it was working and the caucus people couldn't get through. When the app failed, Dem leaders had posted the call number online. I wonder who started it, and if it was a GOP professional.

Several years ago in NH, the GOP hired an answering service to jam lines for rides to the polls to help in Sinunu's election. People went to jail for that.

Regarding this, Chuck Schumer said:
(on Maddow) Remember that justice will flow like a mighty river, and the arc of history bends toward justice; don't give up.

[Cha]

1. KR!

[SharonAnn]

17. They do this frequently, in many locations.

Even in our small county they tried to keep Dem Party phone occupied on Election Day 10 years ago so people couldn’t call in for info, rides, etc.

[MontanaMama]

2. Can't hack a pencil.

Paper ballots. We KNOW how to do this. No apps. No computers. We’ve got to get over the need for immediate results. We’ve got to get this right.

[Richluu]

15. We did have a paper trail.

For the first time ever, we had candidate preference cards. We wrote down our candidate for the first and second iteration (count). These were collected. That's what the verification will use.

[Richluu]

16. Not sealed

The preference cards were just that--cards. No need to seal them because everyone knows who you're supporting. You're standing in that candidate's group. They count you, then collect cards as verification. Tom Perez wants to use those in the review.

[oasis]

3. Rachel's show repeats at 9 pac. Right now in fact.

[oasis]

4. Kick

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. There won't be any "flowing" with a piece of shit like Barr as AG

He's already suppressed every investigation into MF45 and republicons, but more than willing to crucify any democrat

[relayerbob]

6. This was out earlier today

4chan was one of the main attack bases

[oasis]

7. DNC Chair, Tom Perez up next for Rachel interview. Earlier today Perez

called for a re-canvassing of the Iowa results.

[billpolonsky]

8. Why caucus leaders couldn't get through?

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[tinrobot]

9. Why the hell did they post it online?

There is nobody to blame for this but the people in Iowa who made that dumb decision.

If you post a number like that, the trolls will find it. They did.

[OnDoutside]

12. I suspect that whoever is behind this weren't just randomly checking online.

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Is it possible that the trollish behavior originated from the

Perpetrators of the jamming calls? Once one person shared it, it was "out there" to be shared freely. Nothing stopping anyone from sharing it after that. There definitely needs to be a less, vulnerable to exploitation, system.

[betsuni]

10. K&R

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Each precinct should have had sealed envelopes, with certain assigned numbers & userids/passkeys.

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These should have only been opened in the event of a problem, and multiple dial-in numbers used that are assigned to only certain specific precincts, with a single primary and a contingent number. If someone opened an envelope and took a picture and posted it, that photo would have identified the location or set of precincts involved, and it would have only compromised just one primary and one alternate number, only impacting a subset of precincts.

There should have been unique userids and passkeys for each precinct to help prevent phone imposters.

After all these years, you'd think they'd have their shit together. It's not rocket science.

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[Dem2theMax]

13. Sadly, this is very true.

But we are Democrats and we don't think in evil ways.
It's not in our DNA to behave the way Republicans behave.

Unfortunately, we are going to have to learn to play dirty and be 20 steps ahead of them.

[BlueIdaho]

19. Actually...

The DNC runs a “red team” that looks for ways to disrupt caucuses and primaries. In this case - they obviously didn’t predict just how corrupt Trump supporters really are.

One thing is sure in my mind, we gotta get our shit together if we’re going to beat Trump and his flying monkeys.

[BlueIdaho]

18. Just another reason Iowa results can't be trusted.

There are probably a dozen ways to avoid this kind of rat fucking. Sadly Iowa ran a flawed caucus that was open to all sorts of errors. I wonder if a well run primary is a more secure and reliable process.