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We sincerely regret the delay in the reporting of the results of last night’s Iowa caucuses and the uncertainty it has caused to the candidates, their campaigns, and Democratic caucus-goers.
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As the Iowa Democratic Party has confirmed, the underlying data and collection process via Shadow’s mobile caucus app was sound and accurate, but our process to transmit that caucus results data generated via the app to the IDP was not.
Importantly, this issue did not affect the underlying caucus results data. We worked as quickly as possible overnight to resolve this issue, and the IDP has worked diligently to verify results.
Shadow is an independent, for-profit technology company that contracted with the Iowa Democratic Party to build a caucus reporting mobile app, which was optional for local officials to use. The goal of the app was to ensure accuracy in a complex reporting process.
We will apply the lessons learned in the future, and have already corrected the underlying technology issue. We take these issues very seriously, and are committed to improving and evolving to support the Democratic Party’s goal of modernizing its election processes.
Your future? So you are planning to sabotage Democratic party even further? Are you a Russian op, designed to ruin Dems?
If it's corrected, why are they releasing only 50% of the results? What did Pete pay you guys to do? Why did you choose the name SHADOW?! Who's in charge of assuring your app is secure?
#IACaucus #iowacaucus2020 #iowacaucus2020 #IowaCaucusDisaster #ShadowInc
It’s time to stay quiet and lock your account.
lol you remind me of the seinfeld episode where george parked in a handicapped spot and his car was trashed. i believe your best day is behind you. @iowademocrats #IowaCaucuses2020 @realDonaldTrump
They seem to think was minor hicup. They made us look like incompetent jokers. Trump is excstatic, Shadow thinks all is going to be well
shadow is done, kaput, finished...they deserve all the ridicule heaped on them. but so does the Iowa Democratic Party leadership. My 3 best clerks could have counted the votes in time for your morning coffee.
You should all be out of a job, for blowing this. How embarrassing. It's infuriating that all of you working at Shadow will undoubtedly fail upwards from here.
Brings me such joy to see the DNC trying to sabotage your candidate.
Nothing better than seeing the worst that America has to offer get screwed over again and again.
saying the quiet part out loud now lol
I hate democracy too :)
can this statement be attributed to a particular person in leadership at Shadow?
The lesson is, don't let a for-profit tech company build infrastructure for public elections.
But pretty funny they think they’re getting that contract again. This is the industry standard apology tour, in a thread, literally about the unnecessary risk and chaos caused to our democratic process. Pretty. Funny.
Google and Amazon are laughing at your post....
The lesson is hire a competent one. Good luck finding a competent non profit tech company that doesn’t have their own motives.
Tech never helps with elections, it just adds more vulnerabilities.
You know you're posting this on Twitter? For-profit, handles billions of messages a day from millions of people a day.
No, the lesson is, don’t let a bunch of incompetent Democrats run anything more complicated than a lemonade stand.
No it's what Kathleen said
Why not both?
because its wrong lmao
Yeah, that's it, sparky! You got it. Glad you were able to regale us all with your pearl of wisdom.
Privatization of public services is so naturalized in the USA that it goes without a second thought that the Democratic Party would rely on a private, for-profit company to tabulate votes in a public election.
And because it is a private company, there is no public oversight over its coding, funding sources, or potential conflicts of interest.
But, given that the Democratic Party is happy to take millions in corporate donations (i.e. is not a 'public' party in a real sense), their choice to contract Shadow is not surprising. We need a workers' party that is accountable to its members, not corporations.
Yes, you’re exactly right because “public employees”(government employees) and/or those who work for non profit organizations are ALWAYS ALTRUISTIC. Congratulations, Comrade, you’ve discovered the solution to all problems.
The profit motive corrupts exponentially more people than simple incompetence
Sure, keep on defending the for-profit model. It's worked so well.
The “for profit” model has lifted mankind out of the dirt over the last 300 years. In the last 30 years the model has provided unprecedented wealth for nearly all people including for the first time in human history there is enough food for all to be fed.
hmm wonder why those people aren't getting fed though
The .001% appreciates your credulity.
Made up of DNC insiders who got the contract because they're insiders, not because they're competent.
*That’s* the lesson? OMFG
That is NOT the lesson, Kathleen. The lesson is don’t make selections of private companies based on the fact that your friends run said company.
Don't let a Clinton-related entity build infrastructure - election wise or other.
Whose CEO is openly pro-pete and is run essentially by a bunch of ex-obama and hillary staffers.
No profits for ANYONE!!! I sure the hell hope you don’t have a savings account!!!!
if the government did it it would cost 1billion dollars. source:
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And don’t let Buttigieg send them 21k to help develop it.
And accept money from campaigns
or let them accept donations from candidates
But it will not be used in Nevada, correct? For the credibility of our elections, right?
We are happy to answer any and all questions on our process, funding, and vision. #Transparency is of the utmost importance.
Are you a Client Success Rep (ie, customer support) or are you in leadership at Shadow?
this account is only an hour old and most likely fake.
correction: clearly fake.
But clearly funny
He seems serious
ok let's see the cap table
Question: why haven't you jumped off the roof yet?
I wanna know if they even did a pen test
I'll bite. Please identify the purpose and extent of Hillary Clinton and Pete Buttigeig's influence and funding in your company.
It’s a fake account answering questions.
Haha.
Yep, i gathered ;)
Will you release any of the underlying source code that ran the applications? Do you have database transaction logs ro prove these updates are legitimate? To what ends was the app made resistant to external attacks?
What user education was provided by Shadow? How did a newly formed IT company with party ties land a contract to build the system for the IDP? If you continue to build election infrastructure, will you release your funding information? There's a few to start
Client success rep?! clearly an oxymoron
That’s a fairly common title in a tech company. It’s a sales/customer service type role.
Maybe you should have made *Coding* of the utmost importance. And then thrown in a dash of Competency.
Know what I'm saying, Turp the Derp?
LMAO this account has been live for all of a week. Ya'll should seriously consider a new line of work.
I have questions. Have you ever heard of something called QA? Did you know that software should be tested before release? Is this your first time developing software? Final question: are you embarrassed by how incompetent you are?
Can the app run Crysis?
Also is there anyway you could have f’d this up more than you already have?
Tell me something only a real Shadow Client Success Representative would know!!
You canNOT be serious right now. TRUST = Communication x Transparency. You (+ the IDP) #failed that from step 0. 🙄The mounting anger is less with the unforced technical errors & more with your Firm unwittingly sowing the seeds of distrust in election processes. You had 1 job.😡
Why didn't you disclose Pete funding your incompetent company that wasted the time, money, and passion of so many people excited about their candidate? Smells like corruption to me.
I have a question.
Why is your name Turp?
It's short for Turpmore.
Bunch of rats.
Didn't you guys receive like $21K from the Buttigieg campaign?
Doesn't the husband of your CEO work for Pete?
$42,000 from #MayorCheat
Oh wow, off by a factor of 2.
It's only twice as bad as I thought!
I want to die.
Great company to invest your money in. These guys are going places.
It goes without saying, but it's probably not the best move to name your app "Shadow", massively drop the ball during its world premiere, then hide under the desk with little to no updates on what went wrong. I think you really need to up the transparency and communication.
And a little "due diligence" couldn't hurt.
(It's called "testing".)
(So, our best explanation is "incompetence" or "corruption".)
(Flip a coin?)
My thoughts too. Who were the clueless guys onboard with that company name? Sheesh.
This is what Pete would say after he destroys American working class
seize the means of existence
I would be updating your resume (but do not include this debacle you all created) for you will soon be poor and unemployed.
Could’ve picked many other names to call a company
Fraud Guarantee was taken though
all good, it was only the first results in the election that will determine the fate of american democracy. but this apologetic tweet makes it all better.
What was the underlying technology issue? Go as deep as you want.
Just here for the ratio.
Can you explain what the flux is going on?
Like what have you've been doing for the last 17 hours? Like the actual process of fixing this? Why is taking so long? More details on what actually went wrong rather than a vague statement?
Fool them once...
#BernieWon
What makes you think there's going to be a "future"?
There isn't going to be a next time. You're over
Probably best you don't tweet about how bad you messed up the caucus results before we even have the caucus results that you messed up.
But a bunch of your employees worked for Hillary's campaign, right?
Guess we know why her campaign failed.
Please retweet this poll!
twitter.com/AlexBerish/sta…
What will go wrong in New Hampshire?
#IowaCaucus #NewHampshire #DNCRigged #IowaCaucusDisaster #PresidentBernieSanders
I would LOVE to know how much of the coding work was outsourced
Y’all messed up something our society has been doing since like 6 BC. Nice work!
An app created by a tech firm run by members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign is taking heat for the unprecedented delay in reporting Democratic caucus results from Iowa. @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness
if your takeaway is anything other than "pivot to meal delivery or some shit and gtfo of democratic processes" it's not the right takeaway
I am sure it was just a developer making some mundane little mistake
Both developers Dmitry and Yury are nice guys.
They are just two wild and crazy guys
Is it true your CEO is married to the communications director for Pete Buttigiege's campaign? And there are other ties between your company and the Buttigieg campaign?
Modernizing election processes creates much more risk for fraud and what happened last night.
Will you have the "fix machine" ready for Nov?
Cute that you think Shadow, Inc., as a company, is going to have a "future" to which it can apply these "lessons."
apply it by staying away from politics
You sure do glow in the fucking dark
I definitely have to laugh, too, that your (supposed) goal is to help with unimpeachable and clean election results, and you chose the name "Shadow," haha.
No you won’t and no you don’t
No one is ever going to let you or your employees near an election again.
You guys are finished lol
Anything to keep Biden protected, right? No Iowa boost for anyone if it’s not your guy.
You had one job...
This is rookie cheating efforts, get with Hillary to learn those senior level cheats
the election process does not need to be “modernized”
It could be done if done right to speed up reporting.
So code for we now know how to modify our system to ensure that we can guarantee who wins based on who we are told has to win? How much were you paid to build this load of crap?
blah blah poo poo pee pee
Translation: we are supremely incompetent
How do people who suck so bad at their job get to keep their job?
You should all be arrested.
You regret and apply lessons learners? You think you have future? Are you on bath salts?
I am a software engineer and this is complete bs.
profit... bad??
Why did you not remove yourselves from all involvement in vote tabulation if you have received financial compensation from two of the caucusing campaigns? Why is that not a conflict of interest to be concerned about?
I literally did a competent version of what this app is supposed to do for a weekly CompSci 102 homework assignment in 2008. Someone please give me a million dollars to fix the Democratic Party.
Probably something that should've been caught and fixed before last night, yeah?
Something you should have taken seriously BEFORE fucking up the entire thing, not after.
I mean it's only one of two main functions your app has.
How do you not catch such a glaring issue?!?
Imagine failing this big and being allowed to give it another go, amazing
a very important lesson to learn is that u are bad at ur jobs
This wasn't like you mistook the Kansas Chiefs for being a Kansas team. This was a historical and epic fail. A fail so huge how can it be overlooked. It's not a "let's apply lessons learned" kind of event. It's a YOU ARE FIRED. event. hahahahaha
#Iowa should sue @ShadowIncHQ #Shadow is a mess
#Iowa will lose their Caucus system. Brings in 100s of PPL living there. Journalists, PPL traveling.
Also for the teams it cost momentum and joy.
A LOT of PPL are hurt. First term voters. It's a MESS.
#USA #Bananarepublic
It's a "you had one job" kind of event.
I'd be fired in my world
What future?
Nevada said
Or you could close up and find decent work that actually helps people. Nobody was asking for this crap.
You guys will learn your lessons when your executives are sent to jail for election fraud
no you won’t. you won’t have any clients to apply it for. you’ll be looking for a new job in a week and your work for this company will follow you around like a stain for the rest of your career
In other words..the app didnt work as sold and wasnt tested effectively. In addition pic wasnt told until it was too late and trust broken while you spin narrative. Any org that give you trust in future would be foolish
#PeteTheCheat didn't mind one bit.
Delete your app and account
As long as you take “these issues” seriously, well, you’re good to go. We thought maybe it was, like, a Groundhog Day joke or something.
What was the "underlying technology issue"? When are you posting the postmortem?
They failed to account for people with actual accounting being able to dispute their proprietary black box app?🤔
Their response...
shut down your company and never try to do this again, thanks
Apply pressure on the accelerator and point your car at the nearest brick wall.
we don't want or need for-profit companies administering our democracy for us.
dissolve ur company
I don't think you deserve another chance. On the other hand, we definitely deserve transparency, not only on your massive fuckup last night but also on who funds your organization. #IowaCaucuses #Iowa #IowaCaucusDisaster #iowacaucus2020
Why was it necessary for Pete camp to pay you so much money?
You could have created a mobile FAX app and had the precincts take photos of each stage in the results.
A simple spreadsheet, prepared w/formulas, & data entry in triplicate (or more) would have done a better job.
#KeepElectionsOldSchool
#PaperBallotsCantBeHacked
Better now than in the future w Our 2020 Election I hope...u aren't doing that one..right?!
go away. do better things with your lives
Just delete not only your account but your entire company.
Lol this implies you truly think you will ever be trusted with this job or any job like it again.
Sincerely hope none of you ever get to work in technology roles related to elections ever again.
They’ll all fail upwards and at least one of them will become a cable news pundit
American exceptionalism
Not just technology roles. They have to place in politics or elections. They should be audited, investigated, and probably put in jail.
not a chance, it's the ultimate grift! you can charge the campaigns (meaning OUR money) for something for which the results can never be measured!
I'm sitting here trying to imagine something _I_ could sell to these morons, spending other ppl's money!
Investors Rush to Scrub Ties to Firm Behind Iowa Clusterf*ck
The frantic cleanup put a microscope on one of Democratic Party’s fastest-rising digital stars.
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They are already working on the Nevada app!
I wouldn't let them program a microwave to heat my velveeta
I have an odd feeling they won’t.
i sincerely apologize that the dog ate my homework and have taken the necessary steps to address the underlying dog related issues
What is your address?
there should be absolutely no future for this company. you're all grossly incompetent.
i hope you get DDOS'd out of existence.
you're going out of business.
Juicero, Theranos, Shadow.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! What sort of morons would trust you to implement your app in future elections?
Nah... mission accomplished for you guys.
this ratio is going to be BIG
For profit you say?
Well, not anymore. Better update those resumes.... And maybe leave Shadow off of 'em?
This is such a Buttigeig move.
Oh, I can think of something I'd like for you to commit to...
I could build your app in Excel without using a mouse.
cc: @Wu_Tang_Finance
Do those lessons include not getting caught rigging our democracy for paid clients like #PeteTheCheat ?
I noticed u gave job opening for Wordpress dev. For a group afraid of “Russian haxx0rz” that’s literally the most insecure CMS to use. #2020electionheist
Cant you people just make flappy bird knock offs instead
Disband your company
The underlying issue is the arrogance and smug self-assurance that led you to push out an untested POS app for a reliability-critical job. This statement makes it obvious you haven’t fixed *that* underlying issue.
Hopefully after this, no one else in the Democratic Party will ever use your services again.
You’re company should probably not be taking any money of any kind from democratic presidential candidates.
But you did it anyway.
Lol the lesson learned here is that for-profit tech vultures shouldn’t be anywhere near administering elections, and your mere existence is a sign of decades-long institutional rot.
Hahahaha what a joke
Consider talking to @AdaptiveCLabs, especially if you'll have further involvement in further @TheDemocrats primary season.
Just file Chapter 13 and reorganize under a new name, Shady, Inc.
You should be committed to dissolving the corporation and disappearing forever.
Lesson 1: Learn basic project mgmt principles.
Lesson 2: Learn about mobile app development lifecycle methodologies.
Lesson 3: Take several seats until you’ve at least mastered Lessons 1 and 2. 😳🙄
you people sure fucked things up #fail
There is a future but it won’t include Shadow.
Disband your company!!!
What a joke.
Is this a parody account?
Ask plouffe 😂🤣
it appears so... well... a parody company would be a more apt description
lol is this fucking parody?
Is anyone surprised this company has ties to Hillary Clinton
Where are the results then?
Democratic party: Oh, we can't tell you who developed the app cuz that might make the company look bad.
(app crashes)
Right because waiting until the entire system crashes and one of the most important elections gets thrown into disarray looks a LOT better.
Do you offer all your customers software that isn't tested and doesn't work?
So tell me, how did you get the contract to make the app in the first place? Was there a bidding process or was it a good ole boy thing, since many of you have campaign experience?
Well that’s all settled then!
I think you should handle all the dems elections. Good job!
PS Nevada already ditched your app.
Cease operation, and return to the festering startup hive from whence u came
Pretty sure you're out of the political business.
Fuck right off
This is too little, too late. Having Clinton ties also gives you ZERO credibility also.
Read: OK Hillary we’ve opened the door for you!
Sorry, the future may not exist given the stakes in the upcoming election.
The mistakes you made were fundamental. Through ignorance or by design, you have no business continuing with this contract and in the interest of security and democracy, you need to bow out.
Wow!
So you learned how to properly write some computer code in less than 24 hours!
AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT!
Hopefully you’re never used again
Who funds you? How did you win the bid for this project? What is your relationship to the Buttigieg campaign?
We can only hope nobody ever uses your services for elections again.
I think they should handle everything
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The Democratic Party is even stupider than I think if they let any of you anywhere near anything they do ever again.
You hiring? No way I could be as shit as you
You guys are going out of business and no one who works for you will get a job in politics ever again, I don’t know how you could be so delusional to think otherwise.
Instead of doing damage control, I want you to realize that your company is finished. Theres no way that people will trust you with a contract after this debacle.
YOU HAD 1 FUCKING JOB
1!!!!!!!
You've corrected the underlying technology issue, but have you tested the correction yet?
How about "modernizing" the process by going back to hand-marked paper ballots. You should not exist as a business.
You’re everything that’s wrong with this technocracy
Who the f*** paid you?
shutter your doors and go to hell
Oh man. I bet you people wake up every day so proud of yourself. Make sure you pat yourselves on the back, next time you get a chance.
I wanna know why you guys are connected to @PeteButtigieg 's campaign..
You have to ask, should be obvious!
People aren't stupid. They know some of the people involved in your little scam. Go find something else to do, and stay out of our elections.
What REALLY happened in Iowa? Was it caucus corruption? Part 1
Nomiki Konst and Contributor Sam Finkelstein explain what happened in Iowa. Who awarded the app contract? Was it the app's fault? Who else is using the app? ...
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How about that Mayor Pete money you got? Has that been spent fixing the issue?
You broke every rule of software testing and deployment. If the market functions at all you'll be bankrupt in a week
Corporate-speak.
*modernizing its electioneering processes - FTFY
Why did you take money from candidates? How is that not a conflict of interest?
Apply those lessons by refunding what your were paid and getting the fuck out.
Sounds shady
lol future. yall going bankrupt
Why would any one employ you to do anything ever again?
You should go out of business.
We expected nothing less from the Hillary cult. Thanks for not disappointing!!!!! #PresidentBernieSanders
Good luck with that fanasty of Sanders getting president.
-Ralphie "I'm helping" gif-
Please stop. We don't need or want your "help.". We need paper ballots and public elections with no corporate interference.
Give back the cash and self immolate the firm, thanks
way to inspire trust in the entire process, everybody. feels like this election is gonna be a real doozy!
Pack it up, because
Nice try, Hillary team. Silicon Valley is gonna get taxed HARD. Go screw elections with Pete Buttigieg somewhere else. #Buttigiegisarat #DNCRigged #PresidentBernieSanders
YOU WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS!
Donate #MayorCheat’s payments to your for that broke ass app to charity then
why are you for profit
The opportunity
For the obvious added value they bring to the table
Can you point me to any software companies that are not for-profit?
fAcTs MaTtEr
This is how capitalism works sweetie. If they screw up, they don’t get paid. In the socialism model, doesn’t matter if you screw up. Everyone is a winner and loser at the same point.
For the love of sweet baby Jesus, PainDontHurt, can you please think about why it's a big honking issue that a for-profit third-party app, that of which was funded by Buttigieg's campaign, would be counting VOTES? Use your brain.
This apology is written like a middle schooler who stupidly threw a rock at a girl.
Because they want to exist in the same category as our prisons, healthcare, higher education, and utilities do. Plus 💰💰💰
Just go away
I certainly hope you are not any part of it.
And that they reconsider this BS, immediately.
Future??? Lol...
I see lawsuits and congressional inquiries in your future... that's about it....
your best buds #PeteTheCheat and @neeratanden are quite happy with what happened, so you know.
No one asked for this shit and no one wants it. We don’t want to “modernize” the election process. We want free and fair elections with paper ballots!
we can explain: we are a for-profit company
...We arent explicitly malicious, but we'r trying to sell our hack solutions, designed to fit w/in, if not below, the minimum requirements to save us the highest amount of profit, to people who arent accountable to u, yet can force u to suffer the consequences of our crap product
But I thought privatizing everything would make it more efficient
You give us money/power, we declare mayor Pete victorious. How's that for efficient?
If DNC or state party organizations continue to contract this company, can we say this party doesn't have accountability?
What is accountability anyway? It's just an idea. Vague. We don't even agree on the metric used to determine it. This is fine.
For starters, give the money back you got for this disaster of an app. Until then, all your words are meaningless.
It's OK. We're just deplorables.
You have failed the American public.
Give us the code.
#DebugTheNation
You all belong in prison.
no no no no no no. You people deserve to go to prison for attempting to rig an election you definitely don't deserve to continue on
You guys should never be involved with another caucus. You are both incompetent and unethical. #IowaCaucuses
Future? What what fucking future do you all expect to have in this industry? 😂
You did this on purpose.
Your tech is shit. There is way better methods to approaching election technology.
You failed and should feel the consequences. I hope you fold as you should not be granted another contract from anyone
What a sh-t head!
I think Howdy Doudy here should run for President. The mayor looks well qualified for dancing with the stars lo
how much money would you say you owe Iowa caucus goers right now
Nothing you say should be trusted and your incompetence amounts to wasting so many people's time, money, and passion. You all should be ashamed. But what else to expect from a company called "Shadow" who keeps important info in the shadows.
You should refund the money they paid for this cluster....
No thanks!
Literally none of this matters now and you should have never built this app.
Dude you should be in jail
Uh you should be bankrupted
Hey @DNC I’ll do this for half their price. DM me
Please take a long walk on a short pier. Thanks!
We don't want to modernize it. We want proof on paper.
Even a newly-recruited Shadaloo guard could make short work of you, fool!
Can you please clarify where your offices currently are?
Those tweets are ... coming from inside your house!
No "NW" in DC address?
Are they even American?
Job Opportunity!
Shadow, a Democratic Digital Firm seeks a Client Success Representative to respond to incoming requests for help, manage the client-facing help center, and any client training. @ShadowIncHQ
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Hillary's basement
The same place Acronym's office is. For real. People are finding this stuff now.
twitter.com/SGTMatthewLewi…
#Shadow's website lists the same WeWork
1342 Florida Avenue
Washington, DC 20009
Least trusted name in applications now. You tried and it didn't work. U got caught & weren't prepared for the consequences. Now we will see how trustworthy your math is soon enough. I expect we will need to go through the process several times before we get an accurate count.
in a just system you clowns wouldn’t be allowed near a democratic election for the rest of your lives
You're done. Start another business. You are not entitled to our hard earned donation money. We need to flip Senate seats.
How is it you think you still have a viable company?
do you think you might have done some testing? anything?
I would like to see what your load testing (and testing cycles in general) look like, and what results have looked like leading up to the vote (was it stabilizing leading to the night? remaining the same?). Also would like to see what the team size and timeline for dev was.
Your app is a disaster!!!
Neither you nor the DNC should have a future
Your company is trash, you bungled one of the most important events of 2020, and you should all resign in disgrace.
Personally, I think your app was a major failure and therefore you should go out of business. Even as a Millennial, I don't want to vote via app. Because of their vulnerability to being manipulated.
You are doing a great job! You should continue to handle all the dems electoral practices lol
Great point. Hackers can get into anyone's machine.
You can just keep your hands off of our democracy! 🤬
You have no future.
No one in their right mind would invest in your technology at this point.
Sadly that's probably not true. Most likely they'll fail upwards like their peers
We don’t need apps for simple math and accounting. Just leave it.
I, for one, truly do believe that you will do a much better job fucking it up next time
When your company goes under and you are all looking for your next step, at least you all have time to learn how to code for real this time
their next step should be off a pier, into the ocean, imo
Shadow needs to be #shadowbanned on #twitter
shadow inc should go to the Hague, bitches
Fantastic apology, guys. Looking forward to seeing you ruin ever more crucial democratic processes as you inevitably fail upwards in the DNC
You're never gonna make another dime in development but hey I'll cut you a deal. I'll give you your last 100 bucks if you publish the source code of the app after the results come out.
how bout you as a corporation just disappear off the face of the planet...
Mayor Pete: $42, 500
Biden: $ 1, 225
Created by former Hillary folks?
In any other period in history this would be a huge scandal. Today it is just Tuesday.
Shadow? More like Shit-o!;!;;;;!!!!
Tell us everything about the problem. Lots of us are understandingly suspicious of what happened and would appreciate a detailed account of how this happened. Nobody will be using this software again anyway so you have nothing to lose.
Please stay out of issues of public interest forever. Unmitigated disaster.
I wouldn't use your app to tabulate voting for homecoming Queen and King.
get the fuck out we don’t ever want to see you again
I’m sure you will! We’ll be over here organizing for Bernie
We should not be using tech for things like this. Paper ballots only.
Iowa does have paper ballots
Not for this caucus they didn't, otherwise we wouldn't have this mess.
I caucused last night. There is a paper trail. Everyone who voted filled a form and printed/ signed their name and candidate name. If the candidate was not viable you could select candidate #2 on the back. Before you left each voter knew the votes/delegates for each candidate.
I believe they are manually entering. While app is new, Iowa has always had paper ballots. Keep in mind our process is not secretive. You can see who everyone voted for. So no conspiracies - Iowans will look at the count both popular vote and delegate and QA what is listed
Why “Shadow, Inc.”? Was “Shady Elections R Us” taken?
Fraud Guarantee was, sadly
I came here to say this.
Delete your app, delete your account and go learn a trade of some sort
Are you guys incompetent or corrupt? Or a bit of both?
I would have been fired for this kind of botched rollout, abd any company I've ever worked for would have suffered a massive financial penalty if they rolled out like this. Where was your stress testing and QA?
What “future” are you talking about? The only reasonable path forward for Shadow is to delete the software and disband the company. Nobody can trust you for anything, ever, and your brand is worth less than nothing right now. Your continued existence is a liability.
If you pulled this big of a failure at any of the tech companies I’ve worked for you would have been fired several hours ago.
need to address this immediately. This company is completely unfit to participate in any election.
Hell, yes. @xkcdComic is even more reliable than @dril for always being there.
This is a perfect illustration of why the government needs a Licensing program for software development. You wouldn't trust a building designed by an unlicensed architect? A Dam inspected by an unlicensed engineer?
Why do we trust our democracy to unlicensed developers?
Are y'all joking or really this daft?
NOW WAY you use this stuff in next states.
Get a telephone team ready and good PPl who can handle Excess and good telephone listening techniques.
Maybe use FAX Machines.
#STOPTHISAPP
You knuckleheads are about as independent as a tick on a deer. Pay to play eh?
No, shut down, fire everyone, and never, ever, get involved in politics again
You absolutely should not have the opportunity to "apply the lessons learned in the future."
Delete your entire business
You should NOT be involved in any more elections.
perhaps you should have looked at real standards like FedRAMP and NSA NIAP. Anything less is a clown show by amateurs.
Dear @ShadowIncHQ: Why should you be involved in this process at all? All Iowa needed was paper forms, a fax machine, a dozen decent data entry personnel, and an Excel spreadsheet. Please just go away.
Have a press hearing with a ton of professionals from both sides of the team.
“Independent” #rolleyes
Do yous guys make voting machines too? That would be kewl.
Well I sure hope “apply the lessons” doesn’t apply to our elections because there’s no way you should be allowed to be involved after this. Also, yeah, for-profit. Nice. Stay the fuck away from our elections.
Super.
Take the $42,500 from #MayorCheat and donate it to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Thanks.
Interesting idea, but please don’t funnel that money through any of the trump* charities that might still be out there.
wow. Learning lessons is good. Being transparent is great. For the sake of transparency, can you help us understand how you can work with both DNC and one of the candidates and accept money from both? Thank you.
Did #PeteTheCheat invest in your app? I'm gonna dig and let's see what we find? #FakeNews cheats
I hope your company ends now. Enough damage! We have Trump to deal with, now our own are sabotaging us! You people! I hope some Dem campaign sues you for everything you got. You made us look like jokes!
The advertising the Iowa debacle has given, may make the “for-profit” part of this statement, a bit more challenging...
Companies that process vote results need to be banned from taking money for candidate services
sounds shitty!
"complex reporting process" i.e. a simple web form with authentication. The whole process would have better if it were paper. Actually, we're relying on smartphone pictures of the paper for actual news now. If it had to be tech, should have been open sourced. Good job.
I have the same question. What is complex abut typing numbers into a field?
I am a career software engineer. Literally nothing. The biggest concerns here would be security (authenticating the users, making sure its not manipulated/hacked/available to the wrong people). All this is fairly normal everyday stuff. Still though, paper. This is exhibit A.
They had already developed a text messaging service for Pete. Surely they could have had the results texted to a number and had those messages parsed? They had already accomplished the same thing!!!
I could have had a Google forms made up for this and it would have taken maybe two days to ensure it worked as expected.
Pete's comments here as well as the connection tom steyer and priorities USA.
No one pays $50,000 for a secure text messaging app. That’s pure bull shit.
Can we see the git commit that fixed the issue?
Was it something like:
if (caucus.winner() == 'Bernie') {
return new Error('There must be some mistake')
}
?
It's so weird that the story on this has changed so many times. Why not stick to one story, like the original: "ACRONYM is thrilled to announce the launch of Shadow, a new technology company that will exist under the ACRONYM umbrella".
ACRONYM launches Shadow
ACRONYM is launching Shadow, a new technology company that will build accessible technology and tools to enable campaigns to better harness, integrate and manage data across platforms and organizations.
web.archive.org
Independent 😂😅🤣
For-profit and Democrat party?
it’s not a complex process in the slightest
Bruh you ever tried to count? Shit is whack
Squishy flesh-bags keep squirming around and moving.
e.g. the day before, the Superbowl had to process the tickets of 62,000 people in one building and get them all to their seats. And the game started on time.
Glad to see your app will no longer be used in Nevada.
When you say "independent": What % of Shadow is owned by Acronym? Acronym initially reported it had "acquired" Shadow but now says it's only an investor. Can you clarify the relationship?
also Acronym is listed as Shadow, Inc’s technology partner for P2P messaging and data messaging, otherwise known as “the backend”
Acronym lists shadow on their list of for-profit companies which they operate. The same people who work for acronym work for shadow. They are lying
Keywords: "for profit"
Maybe we shouldn't be using private companies to help with public elections...
For profit? Not anymore! Free market gonna bite you in the booty.
How is 'entirely comprised of former HRC staffers & cashing checks from Buttigieg's' campaign considered Independent?
The DNC needs to terminate their contract with you immediately
Took y'all long enough. What did Pete pay you for?
Textbanking software.
Cool! Got info about the CEO being in the tank for Pete too? Also why ACRONYM a non-profit is investing in a for-profit company and then distancing itself from it?
I would look up the term private public partnership and the ideology associated with it. I recommend this book.
Yeah, that ideology is a proven failure. And public-private partnerships are about public entities partnering with the private sector, not non-profits combining with for-profit orgs.
To me it is about the ideological defense that has impacted both the nonprofit private sector and nonprofit public sector.
Advertising campaigns as well
I guess if that was your goal, you could say you failed. Like, at historic levels.
You literally made the process worse
Shadow was launched by former staffers to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, including Niemira, Krista Davis, Ahna Rao, and James Hickey, according to professional biographies listed on LinkedIn
App is shit mate.
Only non-lie on this thread.
i love how capitalism is ruining out electoral system
Well, under socialism the election process is even worse.
Attacking the people who want to create more transparent election processes is a great way to ensure you won't get them.
We need publicly funded elections so we can trace the dollar from the treasury to y'alls bank account and FOIA the shit out of your private 'for-profit' records and correspondence.
As is, you just get to kick back, cash checks and laugh.
Yea....we totally believe you.
You failed miserably
Optional? Did any not opt to use it?
Retire, bitches.
(Possibly sensitive)
should have learned to code
thank you for letting it be "optional," The Shadow Company! i love you!
yaaaaaaaaaaas
Y'all remember Juicero? Well...
you're going out of business.
Juicero, Theranos, Shadow.
How do you account for the donations from both the Buttigieg and Biden campaigns, and how a Buttigieg campaign advisor is married to someone in a high position?
Yeah, accuracy in making sure you rig it for the man who gave you more than $42,000 #MayorCheat!
Please cease to exist before you screw anything else up. Thanks.
Is the source code for the app available?
If not, how can you expect people to trust it?
You are the problem, not the solution
How'd that turn out?
Ensure accuracy = allow cheating
Uh huh.
ratfuckers
"For profit." Yet another failure of capitalism.
Your name is literally Shadow
And you utterly botched it.
Did they list “rat fucking democracy” in their list of skills on LinkedIn?
A for-profit company in charge of election results... hmmmmm, what possibly could wrong?
you're fucking grifters. Disgusting privatizing grifters.
If the app was just an “optional” extra then why the fuck do we have to wait for you to fix it in order to get any results
Im sorry, I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that apparently i live inside a childres saturday morning cartoon.
What does “independent” mean in relation to @anotheracronym & @taraemcg who claim responsibility for ‘building’ Shadow?
twitter.com/taraemcg/statu…
With Shadow, we’re building a new model incentivized by adoption over growth, with a deep focus on building the underlying tech infrastructure that will enable campaigns to use the most effective new tools in smarter ways & better integrate + leverage data across platforms.
You shouldn’t even exist in a real democracy
Kindly GFY
you're an incredible example of the sinecures that plague the democratic party, and i hope you experience nothing but shame and embarrassment for the rest of your lives. cheers
Will you be changing the corporate name to "Out from the Shadow"?
I hope they get their money back!
Interesting that a “for-profit technology company” that developed an app to be used in elections evidently only employs one person with extensive programming experience.
twitter.com/b_fung/status/…
But it seems Shadow’s experience in technology may be rather limited beyond that. One Democratic official told me their conversations with Shadow suggested software development was “not their area of expertise”:
Nevada Democratic Party abandons problematic app used in Iowa caucuses
The Nevada Democratic Party said Tuesday that it will not use Shadow Inc., the maker of the app that caused reporting issues in the Iowa caucuses, to power its state caucuses later this month, despite already paying tens of thousands of dollars to the Democrat-affiliated technology company.
cnn.com
Also interesting is the fact you apparently abandoned your listed address a month before the Iowa caucus and no one seems to know where you’re currently headquartered.
twitter.com/b_fung/status/…
I visited Shadow Inc.’s address listed in the Iowa Dems’ disclosure filings. It led to a WeWork in this trendy Washington alley (steps from Maydan and La Colombe). But a receptionist told me Shadow moved out last month to an unknown destination. ??? cnn.com/2020/02/04/pol…
What did profits from Pete earn him?
“Independent” lol. But the Acronym CEO wrote this tweet, right? Tell the truth.
Because a phone call and accurately reading the numbers it’s so hard. Or a scan of the actual tabulation is so hard to forward. Need an app LOL
Wait, so it the App was optional? So why are there still no results? Sounds like you guys are scapegoats, or helping to rig it.
you are not necessary and are actively destroying democracy through your existence
You didn't meet the goal.
Can you say #Bankrupt
I think we should sue you!
Yeah all of that is the problem. Did you write unit tests?
Maybe you should learn to code
Independent? Hahahahahahahahaha
Botched a counting app. Were the kindergarten kids at the local schools all tied up?
I hope they sue every person who worked at @ShadowIncHQ. Everyone!
For god's sake can anyone ever tell the truth?
When you say you are "independent" you imply that you are unbiased and free of the appearance of impropriety.
But it's very clear the opposite is true.
So I'm going to call you liars, whether you think it's fair or not.
A caucus is a place where people vote out loud, in front of witnesses. Explain why you were involved in the first place, @ShadowIncHQ.
#REFUNDIOWA @TheDemocrats Stop using for profit technology companies run by craven political operatives for vital public functions, you are devaluing the whole political process. But I guess that's the point, to LOSE to Donald Trump, right? #IowaCaucus #PresidentBernieSanders
Naked, blatant corruption. Thanks for helping to expose the rot at the heart of the democratic party.
Well, at least you set a "goal". And what a great job you did at achieving that goal! Well done. Top notch work! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 /s
more like a shit company
Sounds super legit and not at all worth looking into or criticizing. Great work by everybody on your team dudes
GIVE THE FUCKING MONEY BACK
The only thing accurate about the caucus was that Democrats can't do anything right
If you're "Independent" then you shouldn't be taking money from @PeteButtigieg and you shouldn't be working with ex-Clinton aides.
So what you’re saying is: you’re part of a self-dealing scheme with the #DNC to profit off of elections? I think the goal of your app is to make $$ first... but feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken @ShadowIncHQ
I don't understand what is complex about adding numbers.
Shadow is an independent, for-profit technology company that contracted with the Pete Buttigieg to build a caucus reporting mobile app, which was optional for local officials to use.
Did #ShadowInc see any ethical or credibility problems with creating the official vote tabulation app for both Iowa & Nevada while also contracting with campaigns for specific candidates?
Narrator: "they did not"
Is it weird I read that in Morgan Freeman's voice?
better question: does the consultant grifter class have ethics?
Hope bernie deports you day 1
fffffooooorrrr ppppprrrrooooooffffiiiittttt
Who are your principles?
Your .io website about section only says "technology veterans"
Who are you?
This doesn't make sense. If you had all the data, then why didn't you put it on a USB drive and walk the thing over to @iowademocrats . It doesn't explain why the phones weren't staffed.
We're glad to hear from you. Please feel free to provide TONS of info in the name of transparency and debunking conspiracy theories.
This data you're about to unload on us is as cooked as an Enron earnings report
While you seem honest, and mistakes happen, I humbly suggest you release the full source code with version control history of these apps and their servers, so as to alleviate doubt & suspicion over the reporting. #IowaCaucusDisaster #IowaCaucus
Or, you know, not have computers and software in a space where they weren’t presently required. Like pretty much every election expert is calling for.
committed election fraud last night. They won’t release it. They’ll all be exposed as Pete staffers and will go to prison. @gjniemira get ready to rot. @TomPerez you’re next. #TomPerezResign #LockShadowUp
#IowaCaucas #RiggedPrimary @DNC @iowademocrats
They won't because no one will force them to. We the people have no leverage, which means the DNC has no reason to serve our interests.
Also, open sourcing the server code isn't enough. We can't verify that their servers are running the same code that's open sourced.
Awkwerrrd.
I hear Hunter Biden is available to fill that CTO position. Only he can fix this.
so you had one job, and it went undone.
Why should we trust you?
oh well if you can't trust the group named "Shadow", who can you trust?
🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Everything worked, except the part that didn't.
Your funding presents a massive conflict of interest not to mention you lost all credibility in less than 24 hours. Stop fucking with the electorate.
Rat, Inc
Don't do Nevada. Get out. Now.
They aren't. Nevada issued a statement.
Nice!!! Thx
Then why is it taking so long to report if you have the data
Because they have to verify their data with the paper trail to confirm that their data wasn't wrong, bc it fucked up... rendering their app entirely pointless.
Then why are they saying that all of the data is there and correct
If I'm reading it right, they're merely claiming that all the data people entered into the app from the papers was correct... which means the app was an unnecessary waste of money. The paper clearly worked fine, and caucus workers had to do 3x the work.
Who care if the numbers caucus workers entered from the paper trail was correct, we knew that was correct, the transmission of the data was all that matter for the app, and that part didn't work. It was useless.
I’m not going to take your word for that.
Your fundraising data is already public
If your incompetence (#ShadowInc) did corrupt the #IowaCaucus election results you would publicly deny it until forced to acknowledge it through litigation, right?
Yep that sounds totally reasonable and we have no reason to doubt you whatsoever, dude
FUCKING
H O R S E S H I T
we are pretty sure that the purpose of the "app" was to change the numbers. This is what the DNC does - they rig elections. Great job.
Feel free to share the factual sources for your conspiracy theories, otherwise you are no different than Russian disinformation bots.
you just said "russian disinfo bots". I rest my case.
I agree
thanks. I already being called a "conspiracy theorist russian" for saying this. which means I'm on the right track.
You have a good observation. This DNC is very sketchy and they are know for rigging elections now.
Nope, the purpose was to 'crash as needed' for cases when a delay in results and giving something else to distract the voters would help the establishment goal of preventing progressives from touching power!
Working as designed!!
IMHO it’s not the Dems. It’s the Russians purposely embarrassing them to further turn the voting public to distrust the system. Trump has started already interfering.
We are happy to answer any and all questions on our process, funding, and vision. #Transparency is of the utmost importance.
This is a fake account lmao
Transparency from a sketchy company named "Shadow"
You don’t trust someone named “Turp”?!?
Derp Barrett
we're all doomed lmao
What did the Pete campaign pay your company for?
Unfortunately we cannot disclose the purpose of those payments because of an NDA. I can say at this juncture that they had nothing to do with the appointment of a Pete campaign rep to our results-vetting committee.
OK, hilarious . . .
What a big fuck-up! After this fiasco you guys should consider focusing your Energy Into gardening, poetry or macramé #ShadowInc #ShadowPete #shadowgate #ShadyInc #IowaCaucusDisaster
Apply for a job at Tesla as a Custodial Engineer
I'm sure it's all going to plan, gentlemen.
Thanks but think your gonna be going bankrupt soon
no one should trust you
Release. The. Raw. Data. Now
For all 1700 precincts. Many of us are willing to go through them 1 by 1.
And then they should release their internal documents or @wikileaks will do it
Even if Sanders is the clear winner?
Yess, if he lost fair and square then we would have had to rethink our strategy but we are in the dark. Bernie conceded the primaries he lost to Clinton in 2016.it just needs to be transparent
Hell, sending them by pigeons would have been safer and quicker
Good luck digging out of this hole.
Nice fuckup dildos.
You failed. That's all anyone will ever remember. Justifiably.
Change your name too!
I think the name Blackwater isn’t being used right now.
They can call us conspiracy theorists, but it's bad optics at best.
Agreed - I’m not thinking it’s conspiratorial, but the optics are shitty, and that’s all conspiracy-minded professionals (and hobbyists ) need to keep the shadiness of Shadow/establishment DNC narrative rolling. Just an unbelievably horrible way to start the 2020 elections
Just checking, do you believe Trump colluded with Russians? Checking for ... conspiracy theorists..
Bolivia's elections were delegitimized for less-bad optics.
To be fair, that wasn't an app doing the math. That was just plain common core math fucking up. #IowaCaucusDisaster
WOW! That’s far from accurate.
Vote counts don't match up with attendees on all of them either
The attendees count includes the undecided. I can neither verify those numbers nor explain why the undecided has to count
Exactly - look again at your math here. See how you have it as 4, 2, 1, 1? That'd be right. But that's not what's there...
This is correct - If the total number of delegates awarded is LESS than the number to be elected, additional
delegates must be awarded to one or more groups according to the following rule:
• An additional delegate will be awarded to the group with the highest decimal below
0.5
"4, 2, 1, 1" ≠ "3, 2, 2, 1"
Yes, that worksheet is wrong. I should’ve mentioned that
Well yeah, you should have, because it kind of invalidates the point you were making. You're right to explain why some people get extra delegates, because people don't understand that - but when your point is "the math is right" it helps if the math is, in fact, right.
You started a new account just to correct vote counts lol
Nice spread sheets btw :)
Haha thanks for your support :)
EXCEPT for the bottom left one, that should’ve been 4-2-1-1, not 3-2-2-1 (and a coin toss would’ve been avoided)
There is more to this math than simple rounding up. It’s also based on the delegate count and how they are awarded.
Well, and the whole process of finding a babysitter or getting off work, then possibly getting bullied by your neighbors who can see who you vote for and demand you vote for Bernie or whatever.
And what if you are disabled or sick or too old to stand around for hours.
Exactly. If you understand that and look at each sheet, you can understand how each vote tally was made, and how they’re accurate for the method. The problem is how the caucus system works, not any nefariousness or human error.
I think those are "accurate" in the sense that they did coin flips and other weird shit to award partial delegates.
Nah bro. Coin flips are the cornerstone of our democracy
I was a precinct captain in Washington for the 2016 Democratic Primary. The numbers do add up. Each precinct has a set number of delegates to the county/state convention. The extras are usually assigned to the higher vote getters to round up. Agreed on beforehand.
lmao in the 3rd image...1.36 rounded up to 2 and then right below it 1.36 rounded down to 1. solid.
Not it looks like every sheet needs to be checked over
You think the app is responsible for the handwritten information being transmitted by human beings before inputting it into the app?
To be fair, I think this is an issue with the Iowa Caucus, not Shadow
What a shit show.
Sure, Jan
Bullshit
tech boys are ruining the world. thanks for the jargonized explanation, though.
Ding!
Says who? What evidence can you produce to support this statement?
You know the paper documents ( which were written out in front of members from every campaign and live broadcast on peoples facebook and twiiter).
lol, you say this as if anyone has any reason to trust you
Sounds like they get their money back.
So the "app" part of the app didn't work, huh?
The code gets complicated when it's designed to change votes to help the DNC's preferred candidate.
confidentiality
integrity
ACCESSIBILITY???
Not sure which would be worse:
having 4 years to prepare for something so consequential and screwing it up so royally
Or
If there were some cyber actor who messed w/ your app using a zero day exploit (aimed at causing confusion)
Lolol. Whoopsie!
Did Pete write this?
Yes, because data just randomly changes from collection to transmission, I often send emails and they change to something offensive on the other end, usually after a night of drinking. This really does happen and isnt made up at all.
You guys didn't stress test... obviously
Basic shit here guys
what about the dude tweeting out pin codes you fools
Shut down your company.
Please do the same thing in Nevada. Highly entertaining.
You could have had them all upload their results to Instagram or had @GoPro sponsor live streaming the whole thing on YouTube.
There could have been transparency.
Instead y'all did this.
Governments have been toppled for this sort of "irregularity."
Tread carefully.
Is this in English?
‘It works on my machine; no I didn’t test it on the staging environment, that’s what we paid the QA firm in India to do. Did they do it? I dunno I only care about my pull requests’
Are you all trying to give Fraud Guaruntee a run for their money?
I love how they're phrasing this to conveniently leave out the fact that their data is incomplete lol
So if I'm understanding correctly the phone app collected the data fine, but couldn't send it to their API properly. So their server got incomplete data and the actual data still lives on people's phones.
On that note, was that hotline going to someone putting the data into the app's server side database or some other database? Were they going to reconcile these with each other (assuming they were separate)? Lots of unanswered questions.
They made the app with a shitty visual language called quickbase. They literally don't know how to program and they don't know how to debug the app that they got hired by the DNC to make in their WeWork
im having flashbacks of having to support shit software by defunct vendors written in filemaker in the mid 00's
Wait...could you share a source on that? I'm having trouble corroborating with a quick search and I'd like to be able to pass this on to others.
Actually not super clear on the details, but here's Shadow's product Lightrail which I figure they used to make the app (they call it a political "universal adapter") shadowinc.io/lightrail
I heard the name QuickBase getting thrown around but idk what the connection is there
Shadow
At Shadow, our mission is to build political power for the progressive movement by developing affordable and easy-to-use tools for teams and budgets of any size.
shadowinc.io
(Possibly sensitive)
Top rek!
They were caught with their pants down this time, nor epileptic Hill nor large Mike can save them. It's over, their illusory power & (((money))) tried & failed. #QPosts no. 916 will fix the DNC good
As accurate as Hillary's servers 🤣😂🤣
And you expect us to believe that because....?
So much for blaming old people for their incompetence!
Well, there’s still the environment... so...
‘We received the data no problem.... the results we put out.... not so much.’ I assume you all are changing those LinkedIn profiles a bit...
Maybe, I don’t know, QA and user test your app before release. This never should’ve been in the wild.
Is @PeteButtigieg an investor?
Why should we trust you?
Refund the money to the Nevada Democratic Party and tell them you're sorry and they should use the old system.
"You know how to TAKE the reservation. You just don't know how to HOLD the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation: the holding. Anybody can just take them."
It’s almost like your company is an utter fucking failure
Show us the data and prove zero connection either financially or labor based to Mayor Pete
You named yourself Shadow and you're surprised that people think you're a criminal conspiracy? I mean, you're probably not, but jfc you sure tried to look like one, didn't you?
Delete your business model
How tf did you not bother testing that ahead of time? Who tf would ever hire you for anything ever again?
What about all the data you couldn't collect because your app didn't work?
Booooooooooooooooo
Why don’t you just release the data? I’m pretty sure if you’re on twitter you can handle excel
How do you say Shadow in Russian?
Depends on how you intend to use the word, but I suspect you would want "покров".
nyetbernie
You Mean 2 Say...
I’m am sure the underlying data and collection process was sound and accurate. It was a coding issue somewhere in the ratfucking phase that went array. #UnrigItShadow
assert ratfucking = true;
You literally couldn't figure out how to transmit gathered data over the Internet? WOW
Wait. I was just watching CNN and people are saying they didnt recieve any training on the app. What story are you going with?
Hopefully there will be electioneering charges brought upon you all.
Are you viable?
You had ONE job to do and you blew it. Nobody should rely on any of your products from this point forward.
release your source code
🤣🤣🤣🤣 crowdstrike and their derivatives are all CIA and will never comply even with a court order
They probably have CIA in their code.
Lol🤣
Find the owner and you'll have the answer
how much were you paid for what could be accomplished with a Google Sheet you huckster frauds
So very very true. The technology already exists and has worked perfectly for years.
Give the fucking money back Shadowbitches
Decades even!
Tried and true, like the refreshing taste of Victoria Bitter
VB: Victory (for) Bernie!
Glide app. Duh. 10 minutes, done.
Ah but a google sheet would have historical data and the ability to tie this to people and we want this thing to be as opaque as possible to uh... Correct The Record.
i’m running a bot in google sheets that is probably more technologically profound than the app they developed to pick the fucking presidential nominee
Now you just have to marry someone on the Buttigieg campaign and you're in!
I recommend entering Pete and Chasten's polycule
must love Hamilton
must hate dogs
"The Iowa Democratic Party paid Shadow, the app developer, a total of $63,183.91 in "professional fees" in November and December, according to a campaign finance report filed by the party in January."
As per
What We Know About The App That Delayed Iowa's Caucus Results
Iowa Democratic Party officials said a new smartphone app designed to speed the results actually ended up delaying them. Last month, NPR reported on security and other concerns with the app.
npr.org
A google sheet would not have accomplished what was clearly the goal of this endeavor: give a compromised “third party” complete control over election result reporting
and don't forget taking $170k off a couple of local political parties and Pete Buttigieg's campaign for three months of amateur programming.
Shadow Inc wishing they could've stayed in the shadows a bit longer
About 60k which is honestly way too cheap to create a custom app for something as important as this. Shows these guys either had no clue what they were doing or had funding from elsewhere and basically took a hit on this in order to use it as a case study
Exactly but the majority would have been spent on security and authentication as the data wasn’t a lot to handle...amateurs at best!
Look at this shit lol https://t.co/gkR2cLo51q twitter.com/adrienneroyer/…
The details of Shadow's epic fail keep getting worse. They deployed the Android app through a free version of TestFairy, which caps the number of users at 200.
theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122…
This looks more like a scam. They pocketed a lot of the budget and did the app on a shoestring - which even for these types is shocking to me. So shocking that I wonder if there was not an ulterior motive
FYI it was actually $113,370.78 from IA and NV combined, plus $42¼k from #MayorCheat's campaign
9) That's in addition to payments from the Iowa and Nevada democratic parties' payments of $63,227.91 and $50,142.87, respectively.
(That's $113,370.78 from local parties for software that doesn't work. Purchased in total secrecy. For some reason.)
Charles Sprickman on Twitter
“@delmoi @ragingfoodlady Nevada and Iowa state disclosure pages. https://t.co/EVLG3aOkNn and https://t.co/ybPQafrxSA will give you:”
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Oh my god.
Most of the people on their team have little experience and have only worked there for a year or less.
Yah, this is bleeding edge stuff. We better hope Iran or North Korea doesn't get ahold of it.
I called this a week ago. I just didn't think big enough.
The app wasn't used to depress later caucus voting... it was used to depress later primaries. Iowa is not "delegate rich," so the true prize is momentum.
That is what you helped steal. This is election interference.
Nailed it!
Thats my fear
Please, write these tweets more carefully. It sounds like engineerese. Please write in clear English, as you were taught to do in high school.
It's more like the Dems are rigging the election with your help. corruption runs deep
👏Let's👏have👏that👏data
...but other than that, the caucus went really well
Or, it worked as planned in the case where progressives were doing better than expected & the establishment needed a fiasco that would distract the public from the MAIN FUCKING PURPOSE of the Iowa caucuses! ie. media attention for the winners, not some stupid % of 41 fn delegates
Release your code.
There is no code, they made it in Quick Base because they have no idea how to write code. Trying to decide if they're corrupt or incompetent is pointless, because they're both.
Dear @iowademocrats & @TomPerez, could you explain the thought process behind using a company (#ShadowInc) to use a vote tabulation app that was also being paid by specific campaigns, eg Buttigieg, Gillibrand & Biden?
Thank you for shaking everyone’s faith in our democracy even more. You couldn’t have made a better case that this shit is a failure and we need international observers.
Didn’t you test it?
You must have a very low opinion of observers to assume false authority from your co-conspirators over at IDP means a thing.
Oh, so the accuracy rate failed miserably going from "Shadow" to the IDP. Did your team realize you couldn't fudge the transmitted results once you learned a verification process at the caucus sites countered your relayed results?!
DUMB
You and the rest of @anotheracronym -- all assets of Hillary's ongoing war on Democracy -- knew perfectly well what you were up to.
How does it feel to be the new faces of @DNC corruption run amok?
Trump will run with this right through Nov, and he'll be right. Dems are slime.
literally worse than tinder
Didn't you test it?
In other words, your app is completely broken and was almost certainly an ill-considered idea from inception. Let’s hope the Iowa and Nevada parties get the refunds they deserve.
How can you prove the "underlying data and collection process" is accurate? Will you release the code so Americans can see for themselves what happened? Full transparency should be the goal since this is an American election.
lol, why would we believe anything you say on the matter?
Ah, now the predictions shift to something I know about. I predict in Iowa
- no unit tests
- no linting
- no type annotations
- no build script
- too few specialists on the dev team
- too little money
- timeline too short
- no discipline from client to rein in complexity or scope
was it Russia or the Democrat Poop Touch?
Go with Russia you can sell it much easier than a gigantic turd
Return the money you took from Pete for America
We're supposed to believe you, fucking Batman-The-Animated-Series-ass Shadow Inc?
So your app was literally worse than paper? It was compared to paper to validate it, but it wasn't as immutable as a paper record? Well done?
Major major major fuckup!! A royal fuckup!!
"I believe you," said nobody.
Not suspicious at all.
"Pete Buttigieg didn't win so we have to cover for him. Please be patient"
Your process for taking bribes seems to have worked fine.
Then why is it taking so long to release accurate info? DNC did not confirm this and hasn't been transparent about any issues
And why couldn’t they just have a normal mail-in primary election like Colorado. Let people stay home. We had a disastrous primary caucus four years ago, with so mich turnout people weren’t even allowed in, we learned
Let us do ranked voting with a first, second, & third choice.
release your code
Mmm hmm definitely my dude
Don't you have like tens of millions of dollars?
maybe you should have tested this a little more?
That's like saying the patient died, but the wheels on the ambulance didn't go flat on the way to the hospital. 'Good job', guys.
It's a feature, not a bug- you built in a deliberate flaw that would crash the app if Sanders won (and he did, and you know it!!)
Wow, that’s is some masters level conspiracy theorizing.
Isn’t it much simpler to chalk this up to the usual “people think tech will solve everything because shiny” combined with the usual roll-out bugs and glitches due to lack of testing
and also rural terrible internet.
Dude. Bernie eas clearly the front-runner and nothing DNC cando about that. This time it's rigged against someone else. You know his name.
wat? who might that be?
So you didn’t think the “transmit and collate the data” part of it all was worth thinking about? ... Why am I not surprised?
To be honest, I’d ream you out and cancel the contract before you got to the stage of fucking up so badly.
To create a user interface for the input of the numbers is the easy part. The database connection, hopefully via a secure transmission, and the back end are the more critical elements.
Please do the entire country a favor and just disband the entire company
Show us the source code.
Bank: "Our method of accepting your money was sound, but our process of transmitting your money was not."
So is it the app or is it the Internet structure of Iowa unable to handle that much info at once. CNN says last step
oh ok that makes it all better
Hillary Clinton for America’s former staff ha! ha! Busted.
Please release your client list.
It's protected under CIA confidentiality.
Hope you're all looking for new jobs.
Even the company that owns you is wiping any trace of this outfit off of their website.
With bleachbit?
Or a hammer?
Go make some decks like a real technology company.
OMG. I do IT security and use testing writing; this is in my wheelhouse.
How do you not perform rigorous user testing weeks if not months before launching that app?
Who does a new build 2 days before the go-live date?
Are you serious right now? 😳😳
I’m self-taught in IT, but even I know your approach was off. You’re the IT experts. How do you allow this to happen?
With everything at stake in 2020, you pull these bush league shenanigans?
I just can’t even right now...😳😳
And how it possibly can fail? Isn't that just simple survey, you check some names and send it? I can't imagine that being so hard...
Did anyone check the internet stream?
they're gonna blame the russians again aren't they
Russians could never be as effective as Shadow
Fucckkk OOOOOFFFFF
“Independent”.
I'm super duper proud of you guys...
You read it exactly the way I wrote it for you...😍🥰😘
I’d say that was a victorious explanation.
Treason for those who want it
We all make mistakes.
why tf would you name a company building vote tallying software "Shadow"? Are you literally the dumbest people on the planet?
If it is the internet not the app Libby for gov to put latest transports in for internet for voting in all states
Democrats: ‘Comrades, we are sorry that we lost the Iowa caucus results. We are losers.’
Oh... well in that case all is forgiven... I think you might have to do a bit better than that... #IACaucus #IACAUCUS2020 @DNC @iowademocrats
Why is your company name Shadow though...
That's abundantly clear.
They accidentally typed ‘ow’ instead of a ‘y’ when they first wrote the name. Their actual name is Shady Inc.
Be careful asking those types of questions. I don’t want you to accidentally get suicided by the Clintons.
Hilldawg hired the Russians again 😂
The app didn't kill itself.
To follow...it is waiting until after Nevada to commit suicide...
Bunch of rats.
Doesn't the husband of your CEO work for Pete?
Didn't you guys receive like $21K from the Buttigieg campaign?
I'm sure Pete was happy that the ~$50k his campaign sent your company bought all of this sketchy ass shit. Congrats on removing Iowa from first in the nation status though!
I like the "We will apply the lessons learned in the future" touch -- as if to say "you haven't seen the last of our 'accessible, user-centered tech infrastructure'."
We sincerely regret the delay in the reporting of the results of last night’s Iowa caucuses and the uncertainty it has caused to the candidates, their campaigns, and Democratic caucus-goers.
Here for the ratio
#PeteTheCheat doesn't mind
Take your time interfering with our elections in the interests of your donors! #MayorCheat
#NeverPete
Your app didn't kill itself.
no but Hillary did get them some plane tickets, a gym membership, new Jacuzzi and a free meal specially prepared by her
Jeffrey Appstein
No need to apologize I think you guys did great, really no way to improve on perfection.
And with such a long history of secure election technology services, I'm sure this is a one off
Completely agree.
It's cool, I don't think anyone noticed.
Was there a delay?
Hahahaha! Great response !
(Possibly sensitive)
HAHAHAH ! favorite comment today 😂😂😂
#TweetOfTheDay right here 👏👏👏
Good bit, now support Bernie or log off
dang it, that was a genuine LOL comment. Nice one.
Fuckin' genius comment. I nearly choked reading it, lol.
(Possibly sensitive)
No one is talking about it today. 😎
hahaha
Learn to code
Perhaps a dry run for November?
im here for the ratio
you fucked up
To say the least
accidently on purpose
Did they, though? I suspect it’s all going according to plan.
Yup. They stole Bernie's press moment. By the time the results are out in full, it'll be far too late for the victor to get the same press coverage as they could have had the results been delivered last night. This is as dirty as politics gets.
Fuck em. We don’t need their press. This is ours!! The revolution will not be televised. We must take fate into our hands!
Fuck yeah! They've already started playing down Iowa so it seems as if they knew Bernie would probably win.
And the awesome part is, they played this shitty card at the very start, so we have time to call it out and fix as we go into more important elections.
Oh definitely. I mean that’s why they’re not releasing the results. If anyone but Bernie won they would’ve released the results by now. Absolute worms about to get plucked by Bernie 🦅
No way... they didn’t realize Sanders would have accurate app recording... no one was supposed to find out anything about the app, who paid for it and who was behind it.
They fucked up.
Like they always do.
Gotta rig it for old joe
Lol, prove you didn’t tank it on purpose so Biden wouldn’t get called out for his disastrous performance or show that Bernie won just like when you worked for the Clinton campaign
Learn to code....its easy according to Biden coal miners can just learn it.
Just admit Bernie won. The longer you wait, the more it will hurt the candidates you were trying to help.
So did you return the monies paid you for a defective product.
apology accepted. haha just kidding
Results or no results.
Your credibility:
Some sketchy company nobody ever heard of is the perfect fall guy for the DNC here it’s crazy
Live on Gulf Coast, weak routers cause apps to lag, hurricanes cause excessive use and lag happens so would mass voting
This Pete's company
Do you understand the SEVERE public relations nightmare that came not only from a buggy app, but also calling yourself “SHADOW” while your staff was connected to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign, which ALSO declared victory without evidence?
Because WOW
Probably best you don't tweet about how bad you messed up the caucus results before we even have the caucus results that you messed up.
But a bunch of your employees worked for Hillary's campaign, right?
Guess we know why her campaign failed.
Flaw or feature?
Delete your account.
Speaking of #WorldCancerDay ...
Liquidate yourself.
We see you we have the real results you and Pete can go have your circle jerk now..
Pro Tip - We in the real tech business use a process called “TESTING and Debugging” to avoid a mess like this.
Users always tested, old or new school. What’s not valid methodology is testing live in production- that’s called vapor ware junk.
Nono, real badasses deploy changes directly from their local machine to the Hyper-V production environment!
There was no reason to bring an app into the equation. As soon as you mix personal devices and voting, every compromised device becomes a possible attack vector and targetting these people for attacks becomes much easier. Stick to paper, you are not smart enough to use apps.
I’m reading that they “designed”, built and deployed in less than 3 months. Not sure there was *any* time to test.
If only there was a book the guys from Shado could have read. Like "Software Development for Dummies" or so!
/snark
It was tested last week and failed miserably.
Kind of like impeachment, it was rushed out the door anyway.
Sorta what I would expect from a company called Shadow.
Don't assume those bugs aren't really features.
Imagine what would happen to you if you delivered that?
This was a way to funnel money to a friend a` la Biden/Ukraine.
Career over.
Like,... BOOM.
You really thought a bunch of former @HillaryClinton campaign staffers thought it necessary to debug an app designed with a fix in mind? They thought they could make the #TomDobbs #ManoftheYear story become a real thing.
Coding, they also do coding. :)
RIGHT? You test the entire pipeline weeks ahead of the rollout. And once that’s done, you keep testing it under different scenarios to make sure it works.
And you write the testing costs into the proposal, because doing things right costs $.
Just... incompetent.
Genius. So you test things before running it for real? Who would've thought of something like that!?
I've had a great idea: what if the people who uses the app had training? I give you this billion dollar Idea for free.
How about a process called "eliminating conflicts of interest"?
Quit your jobs
say hey to Pete for me, ya rats.
Paper and pencil.
Even Russians could never hope to be as effective as you, Shadow! You accomplished something that would seem like an anecdote just days ago. You should be prosecuted!
Who in their right mind names a company charged with creating an election app "Shadow"? You BEG for you credibility to be questioned. I honestly thought it was a joke when first saw the name. Next time, if "Transparent" is on the brand identity name list, pick it.
Shadow is a really weird name for a company
The gang goes to Iowa...
The Gang Helps Reelect Trump
This is golden.
This episode would make me feel so much better about this
It’s always Sunny in DesMoine!
It's always Sunny in Dems Iowa caucus
SO GOOD 🤣
*winces*
Oooh buddy .I don't think that crew gonna have any luck mining coal after that whole 'c*ding' thing didn't go to well for them. Hey, maybe they could try their luck at journalism. Pretty sure a walk-on could do no worse than @Acosta or @brianstelter
.
The gang fucks Iowa
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣. I foresee
Learn to code. Literally, please learn to code.
I guess the @iowademocrats threw you under the bus, eh?
Like a parking lot volunteer at the State Fair.
The app committed Arkancide with 2 shots to the back of the head after it was discovered that it had Bernie ahead of the approved DNC candidates.
Coroners Report: Four projectiles removed from back of the corpses cranium. Obviously self inflicted.
Case closed.
Just another example of too much technology.
Can you put the conspiracy theories to rest and explain why Buttigieg’s camp payed you around $100k?
Delete your account.
learn to code
Taking money from a candidate in the election which your software is tracking, the data of which media outlets are reporting, it looks bad. It looks like #fraud.
Clearly you are too stupid to write software, and also apparently too stupid to avoid the appearance of fraud.
When you align with the Democrats, your demise is inevitable.
I don’t believe you.
Was rigging the results of the #IowaCauca for the @DNC a feature or a bug?
It happens with tech but
go to hell
Soooo...how’s Hillary? We’re not the fools you think we are.
Why is Pete funding you? How is this acceptable, we should sue this company.
You still here? #LOL
Get the fuck out. You had years to build this app and it was never tested.
#IowaCaucusDisaster
Get a better PR department or I dunno, close your doors.
🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀
People have been telling you it was broken for months.
So when are the results coming out? Minutes, days, weeks, WHAT?
This is one of those times you with the company's name was "Secure Data Systems", "TruDATA", or "Horizzons Data"...you know, something generic instead of super-cool yet shady sounding like "Shadow, Inc."
all good!
respond to my job application nerds
nothing an apology won't fix
but if you'd just put out numbers that said Bernie won 99% that'd also help
appreciate your honesty
This a joke?
Corruption lies at the heart of everything you do.
Everything @HillaryClinton touches turns to corruption. Even @JoeBiden
You are destroying democracy!
Log off
shady shadow, inc.
You’ve made s mess of things. Didn’t you test your app?
Y'all making Iowa look like Florida right now.
Appropriately named - votes in a shadow... #IowaCaucas
this will become the greatest ratio of all time
Juggalos for Steyer
🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
please never do anything for anyone again you total incompetents
move fast and break stuff, amirite?
Close up shop or rebrand. You're officially fucked.
We'll go back to what we are good at, screwing up the Obamacare website
Bless your heart
Learn to code!
You think u have a future in elections? Buahahaha
Look what your poor development has made me done....you made me like a tweet from Mark dice
Shouldn't your last name be DUNCE instead?
good one mark
(Possibly sensitive)
This is just like BP "sorry"
I'm sorry!
I'm deeply sorry! - Tony Hayward, BP SOUTH PARK!
youtube.com
Crowdstrike LOL
I thought it was Boeing. #Crash
It’s a subsidiary
Response of the year right here
Either way...
you proud of this?
good joke mark
It really is "on the nose" isn't it? Might as well have gone with RigTheElection Inc.
zing!
Probably a shell for soros
don't you have to go call the cops on a rap song or something dumb dumb
Nice! Good joke Mark
My thoughts exactly!!
booooooooooooooooooooooooo
Nope shadow is the perfect name for them with ties to @HillaryClinton as we all know she is the true leader of the shadow government... just have to connect all the dots.
It is even better than that... from their website
MEET THE SHADOW TEAM
We are campaign and technology veterans who have built and implemented technology at Hillary for America, Obama for America...
😂🤣
Awww did you come up with that all by your big boy self?
Please stand up, please stand up!
Correction. “Have Been” soon 🤣
Or DIPSHITS. Or both..."this app brought to you by SHADY DIPSHITS."
Thanks, Dad!
😂🤣😂🤣why SHADOW! why. Instead of Something like Light Inc or something.
Gottem
When they said the app was reporting inaccurate results, it was rigging the primary just as it was programmed to do, but there was too much data being collected by Sanders to pull off the rigging, so they dumped it, but #MayorCheat stuck with the plan & declared victory anyway.
Dear Shadow Inc., Dude. I was a Gold medallist in Electronics & Comms engg & a qualified Telecomms & Networks engg
Granted, I'm not an app developer. But here are some thoughts on your Shady app
twitter.com/yonsolitary/st…
There's no way to verify any fraud in your app. Here's why:
Not shady at all.. Just like The Intercept, when a company's name sends you a message, don't ignore it.
Remember, last time @Tim_Canova results was 5% in *every single demographic*?
This CANNOT happen *UNLESS the code*
EITHER
Sets a ceiling value of 5% for each demographic & Mr Canova got >5% in each (as such capped at 5%)
2/
OR
Sets a constant predetermined value of 5% for each demographic
A dumb engineer/coder would take the latter lazy route
3/
Since you are using an app for vote casting, you can literally use
innumerable filters at different levels
each with tailored filter algorithm
employing endless parameters.
4/
These filter algorithms at various stages can then act as gatekeepers which determine the validity of the vote and hence determine whether or not a vote gets counted.
5/
There's absolutely no way to verify the process from end to end -- from the app on the user device to your final node which puts the results out
6/
Endless possibilities to commit fraud. My God, Consider the fact that this is an app on a smart phone
Endless parameters for filters. ENDLESS WAYS. My brain is exploding with overwhelming just thinking of the possibilities for these multi level filters.
7/
I bet the dumb coders most likely went for a dumb algo. But oh my, I see endless possibilities for future use
What's preventing you from making the source code open for public scrutiny?
Too scared that crip nerds like me might blow open it?
Keep doing you, Shady Inc & DNC
8/
They should also probably learn to code...
No, the point is to be *unprovably* evil.
Mark it's literally already named Shadow
Or ACRONYM?
Shadow: Raid Legends
Shadowy.
Excellent joke sir
Hey Mark!
Instead of being bad they should instead be not good. Lol I’m very funny
If only you were this critical of the Republicans
Shadow, tech firm that describes itself as a group that creates "a permanent advantage for progressive campaigns and causes through technology," created Iowa Democratic Party app, said New York Times. LinkdIn says its COO, CEO, CTO & Sr product mgr worked for Hillary pres. cmpgn
right, mark!
You could say they used "loaded dice" you Trumpanzee.
(Possibly sensitive)
How about Sketchy
Nice!
I'd tell them to 'learn to code". Apparently, that ship has already sailed....
More like Shady AF
#ShadowInc
Envisioning progressive tech since 1984.
Coming soon, our new apartment cubicle sharing app for that long needed cool weather retreat... with free 24 hour security monitoring!
delete your account
no more apps
Disband your organization.
hahahahahahahaha
You are done! Get out of our elections!
A company with the likeness "Shadow" being put in charge of safeguarding important voter info is #peak2020
LOOOOOOOL
No, thank YOU for the comedy and entertainment of the past 18 hours. It's been epic! #IACAUCUS2020 #ShadowInc
thank you for this, all is forgiven
I’m just glad Democrats wasted money, time and political capital. Oh, and looked like idiots in the process, can’t forget to mention that.
ratfuckers
Who tf doesn’t QA an app that’s literally going to be used to verify an presidential election. You’re either extremely incompetent, or aiding mayor CIA
Are y’all stupid or incompetent? Asking for a friend.
Several Friends 😁
no wonder u guys are called a shadow... working in the shadows to undermine the votes huh ahahaha well thats the joke of the day
is a coward
Also the world
Lol crooks
America thanks you for singlehandedly eliminating Iowa as the first in the nation political event. Now it can hold its caucus in June and be ignored.
We expected more from you Shadow Inc, a company I knew nothing about until yesterday
please watch youtube.com/watch?v=1ui3tC…
-- Also @Fishbones2017 watch -- very interesting about the app.
What REALLY happened in Iowa? Was it caucus corruption? Part 1
Nomiki Konst and Contributor Sam Finkelstein explain what happened in Iowa. Who awarded the app contract? Was it the app's fault? Who else is using the app? ...
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You have to admit the name is reassuring. Evidently "Crime, inc." was already taken.
According to google there is a Tv series and a film noir by that name - don't want to get brand confusion.
Fraud Guaranty was also spoken for.
Probably the governer of #Iowa will sui this organisation for billions. This position, with all these PPL, media and visiters and campaigners brings in millions. Now this will be a paper ballot state. Less income. Because of this debacle.
Even the logo looks like a Pete Buttigieg campaign logo.
#MayorCheat will never be president.
Exactly wtf is going on
they've been in the shadows
This is your version of thoughts and prayers?
HILLARY! Is that you? 😂
I banish you
Plenty of people are bad at their jobs.
You lot still take the cake.
Don’t worry, it’s not like you completely ruined any legitimacy to the results and consequently upended the entire process. That would’ve been horrendous if you did. Like, definitely worth feeling like an irredeemable shit for the rest of your life type error. Don’t worry :)
I'd say it went about as well as could be expected from former Hillary staff.
Delete your account and your worthless company
Sometimes a catchy company name will turn around and bite you on the ass.
#shadyshadowinc #Yanggang #trump #Election2020
So that is the official Bernie response now? That Pete orchestrated this whole thing?
You're ensuring 4 more years of trump as you split our Democratic party (a party Bernie does not belong to).
I'd be careful about that. 4 more years of trump will finish the Republic.
Sadly.
I'll translate that for the folks who don't put in blue eyedrops every morning:
If Bernie is cheated, you will have four more years of Trump
You had one job.
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? ...The Shadow knows."
A little too late for an apology,no? You should have had this shit figured out way BEFORE the caucus.🙄
Now explain why you were able to get this contract. Were there bids? What's your history of making competent voting apps?
It’s still so fucking funny that the company is called Shadow
Shadow? Really? Creeps.
how inspired for a dark-money Dem firm to call itself "Shadow"
Looking forward to your eventual quiet rebrand and subsequent fuck ups in 2024.
This ratio is beautiful.
But your company had nothing to do with what happened
Hard to imagine why anyone would agree to use an unproven app for a situation where paper has been demonstrated to be safer, cheaper, unhackable, and easily audited.
technology fails, Nasdaq jumps 🤔
🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼
Do they think we will accept anyone other than Bernie as the winner in this shitshow???!
Lol. They don’t care. They’re pretty sure you’re not going to do much about it.
Quick question: why is it that literally all of your employees are former hillary employees and why did you accept big bucks from mayo boy? Seems just a bit curious!
Yeah about that..
Whoopsie!
You and the DNC should also be sorry for trying to hide the fact you created this app from the voters.
shadow incorporated
This was a catastrophic failure by your company, and no Democrat should ever trust Shadow again.
#PaperBallotsNow
You’re insufferable. Your little app is unnecessary. Your work obstructs and intrudes on our democratic process.
It is all okay now that you apologized "sincerely."
We're perfectly fine with Clinton Alums ratfucking elections.
#TomPerezMustResign
Here we go again!!! Right back where we started from in 2016! More voter fraud connected to HillaryClinton! Well,, how about that???
The DHS aren't any more reliable.. lol They are the same ol trying to keep the 99 percent in check.
I (genuinely) don’t know that her point in sharing is 4 DHS help so much as 2 highlight cozy relationship between it, Shadow Inc. & Pete Buttigieg. —> How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future
The insider: How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future | The Grayzone
Pledging to “end endless wars,” Pete Buttigieg claims he has “never been part of the Washington establishment.” But years before…
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Yeah. That was my bad. I started to make another tweet explaining I was just responding to the info in the graphic, not her.
By "cosy relationship", you mean that his campaign bought software from them? That's like saying that because the campaign bought Microsoft Office, and the IDP used Excel to tabulate results, there must be a conspiracy.
DHS doesn't have anything to do with state elections process. Might as well ask the SuperFriends to check it out.
Not that it's not a ratfucking, but let's make sure we don't layer any more incompetence on this goat rodeo.
And PeteyCheaty had them on his payroll
You mean... he bought some software from them?
No one should use your faux technology
You made me stay up late waiting for results! Then this morning I fell asleep during my morning commute and crashed my car going 70 into the car in front of me. Their blood is on your hands!
i was in the car he hit! it's my blood!
i had to clean zombie adam's blood. #ruinedKhakiPants
Y’all some Corrupt MF rigging this against Bernie. No one likes Butt Edge Edge except Barry and Hildog.
good job idiots
Will Buttigieg campaign be getting a cash refund, or store credit?
#MayorPete's campaign donated how much to you?
Two payments of $21,250, totalling $42,500.
#MayorCheat
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Ok, Boomer. Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
So who got fired?
Needs more ratio
Thank you, Shadow, Incorporated
Tell your buddy Li'l Pete hi for me!
Gonna use this GIF anyway but I’m sure the president thinks you’re doing a fantastic job. Keep up the good work!
you guys single handedly ratfucked the entire caucus.
Why did you exist in the first place? Go away
(Possibly sensitive)
No need to apologize.. I haven’t laughed this hard in ages. You did good.
Hey, Shadow, WHY did @PeteButtigieg pay you 100 grand????????????? 🤔🤔🤔
Why are you only pointing out Pete, and not the several other candidates who also purchased services from Shadow as well?
I’m truly curious as to what you are suggesting. He paid them 100 grand to do what exactly? Delay the results of a caucus he did well in by all accounts? For a guy who knows eight languages that doesn’t sound very smart
They offer varied products/services. The campaign has already said that what was purchased for them was for voter text messaging. Also, that was several months before Iowa chose the company for the app. And Iowa has no secret ballots, paper records, and process transparency.
I don't speak for the campaign, but I can tell you as an unpaid grassroots volunteer I use Shadow for text banking. It's strictly a communications tool. I imagine other campaigns have similar programs. Misinformation is being pushed to turn it into something it's not.
THREAD:
There have been a lot discussed on social media about an app used in last night’s Iowa caucus.
Some are tweeting misleading or incorrect info, according to sources, regarding Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s connection to said app. Here’s what you should know.
So dozens of seasoned political operatives decided to jeapordize their careers in order to help Pete Buttigieg for 42k (which they also had to give him textbanking software for)? Is that what your suggesting? I really don’t understand what you’re getting at here
Yes. Don’t forget #Fuckerberg.
I think it’s pretty clear to anyone paying attention that he’s referring to Shadow Inc, not Shadow Mountain Water of Wyoming. I also think it’s far more misleading to insinuate corruption when you clearly know better
Because they offer text messaging apps for political campaigns. So lots of campaigns pay for their app/services. Not everything is a conspiracy.
You guys are a joke.
🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀
Who would've thought that an election tabulation app named SHADOW might not work out so well?
My 9 year old asked me this morning "Daddy what's Iowa?" and as I explained your app debacle he coded a better version from scratch while eating his Frosted Flakes.
Do you regret accepting $42,500 from Pete Buttigieg and staffing the leadership of your company with former Hillary campaign?
Imho they feel their actions were entirely justifiable, cuz for them Trump is an afterthought; it's about beating Bernie.
There’s testing in production and then there’s testing in production.
No biggie, Pete told us he won, so it's all good, I guess.
But y’all have been preparing for this for THREE YEARS!
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!"
Go away.
Of course you’re based in Denver. Every single tech company out of Denver sucks balls
Doesn't look shady or corrupt at all that you're all former Hillary people who have connections to Pete and his team
you are a joke.
No problem. There are plenty of coins to be flipped.
I sincerely regret your existence.
What part of democracy requires an “independent, for-profit tech company” that took thousands in $ from one of the candidates?
no you don't
thank you. that's all i was looking for, shadow incorporated. i just wanted to be heard.
I was upset at first, but I am satisfied with the apology. Everyone makes mistakes including Shadow Inc.
Donate here on Shadow’s behalf everyone!
Contribute to Bernie Sanders
If we are going to defeat Trump and transform our country, it will take all of us.
secure.actblue.com
Help Bernie get his fourth house!
Do.. do you not understand what you just insinuated? lol.
That’s not even allowed. Try again.
Bernie needs another sports car
Alice needs another brain.
My brain works well. Well enough to know that communism normally leads to people going hungry and being persecuted by their governments.
Conflating Democratic Socialism with "Communism" confirms my original tweet: you need a new brain!
Bernie himself said he doesn't mind being called a communist. Perhaps you should read more.
That's right
Donate to more fuckups? ok.
Done!
went outside and Berned a fiver in the bbq... did just as much good as Sanders will do.
I thought this was a troll. But you're serious.
LOL donating to Socialists.
Damn right shit-for-brains!
🤣 ill rush right out to give my hard earned money to the corrupt DNC so i can fund their #RiggedElection. No thanks. Good reminder i haven't donated to trump this month.
THIIISSS!!!
Transform our country...INTO WHAT?? Our economy is booming, more minorities and women have BETTER jobs and own homes than EVER BEFORE, other countries are being held accountable for their portion of debt and helping themselves out of wars and poverty...
Oh, you want Venezuela
If he wins the Oval Office you're going to be giving up more money than that.
You'll be "feeling the burn". No, that's not a autocorrect goof.
Luke! Go play with yourself!
You can't donate on anyone's "behalf" Samie! You need to provide your name and other information. You clearly have never donated to a campaign if you thought that!
Why would anyone want to donate to a criminal software company, especially with a name like "Shadow"?
Don't worry, in politics you fail upwards...you'll have your next contract in no time. 😂
A company called SHADOW INC, run a CLINTON STAFFER tells us "no worry, itsok"???????
Lololol, wow America, I'm worried
And dont forget their email address was disinfo@shadow...
Yasssssss Queen!!!!
Way to be prepared for an event like this. Bravo.
"We sincerely regret the delay"
😯😯😯if HRC was running, YOU would be on your way to RUSSIA by now..
Hey it's no biggie no one seems to be too upset about it
Everything that the Clinton's touch turns to ashes!! 🤦♂️
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😯😯
You might want to rethink the name if you’re going to be making election apps. In context, Shadow seems kind of sinister.
Im a doc so what do i know but generally if we use something on a patient we test it out first.
You are the most horrible company in the history of the United States. Shame on you!! You have killed all the good vibes of the voters who worked so hard for their candidates.
Hope you have good counsel. Sure seems like a breach of warranty and contract to a casual observer. Shit, you deep sixed the entire caucus.
What's the result you rats?
The delay is Hillary is the one counting the votes
Tell us what the Mayor Pete money was for
If I didn't know how incompetent/corrupt the Dems are I would believe you guys are actually GOP operatives. Thanks for the in kind contribution.
So im guessing the democrat establishment didnt like who won, so their puppet company here is in the process of "creating" votes for whoever their masters tell them.
Your team isn’t diverse enough, where are the women of color? This wouldn’t have happened if you let people of color run the company, quit being stuck up whites.
I think everything worked exactly how you planned.
You are fired. Get away from our elections.
This is actually a decent apology, but someone should be fired for not beta testing the technology. I mean, it's really that simple.
You act like the app didn't perform as expected.
#Naivety
I think after this they will just have no business.
Yup, the the investors are scurrying away
twitter.com/lachlan/status…
New: Shadow Inc. investors ACRONYM and Higher Ground Labs are scrubbing their websites of info linking them to the firm behind the app that fueled Iowa caucus chaos last night
Investors Rush to Scrub Ties to Firm Behind Iowa Clusterf*ck
The frantic cleanup put a microscope on one of Democratic Party’s fastest-rising digital stars.
thedailybeast.com
...and?
And Hillary won.
Your app was Arkancided.
I see suicides in your future
Sure you do.
The chaos is perfect Karma payback for what the Democrats have done to @realDonaldTrump during #MuellerReport, #RussiaCollusionHoax, #SpyGate and #ShamImpeachment.
Love to watch democracy crumble!
"perfect karma". Results delayed a single day, Big woop. Really "owned the libs"
This is a really bad failure. How did you not test this?
Yall sincerely regret donating a fuckton of money to #MayorCheat too? You should have no loyalty to any candidate as a company who creates an app to monitor an election.
I’d tell you to learn to code, but that would assume this wasn’t just a sinister plot to cover your candidate’s ineptitude.
The issue is your company really shouldn’t exist in this capacity. I know that’s above you and above me, unless they’ve got like a VP running social, in which case; cmon man why
oh good for you i'm so happy you regret the delay
You people are a grossly incompetent, or complicit in voter fraud.
"As of now we are attempting to retrieve data from our backup servers in Ukraine."
Your company should be investigated
We want documents & witnesses!
Whoever's in charge of damage control and PR for your company should be fired. This is the lamest "apology" and/or explanation of a total meltdown of your technology.
You are rightly being cast as villains, continuing @HillaryClinton's war on Democracy.
Sincerely hope every one of your principals become radioactive after this.
(as your principles clearly already are)
#Rigging
#BernieOrBust
Wish you’d learned more during coding boot camp
RIP Shadow Inc.,
Feb 3, 2020 Iowa Caucus- Feb 4, 2020 Iowa Caucus
You should never have been given the contract. #MayorCheat knew what he was doing.
Y’all didn’t learn to code? I blame common core math. 🤔
Just here for the ratio.
The woman IS a hawk, but damm... she's funny.
In another place and time you'd all be handed a small sword, then everyone else would leave the room.
If you really work for Hillary as the reports are surfing, you need to show up in a court and answer the American people
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Shadow knows.
v malarkey
Paper ballots!
Eat poop and perish
Doesn’t matter, the damage is done.
You're the Weyland-Yutani of Apps
I admire its purity
I just fucking spit my coffee everywhere. Lol
How much did tRump’s campaign pay you?
Hopefully nobody noticed.
So, what's going on!?....
resign and fold the company
Yeah ok. Don't believe you at all. You hid your tweets last night, said nothing, mayor cheat gave you money, then declared victory. NOW you decide to say "Whoopsie"... you're part of what's wrong with this Democracy. You should all be ashamed.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Some people are saying, Ukraine has the server. Let's get Rudy on the case.
You should be financially penalized in an amount no less than double what you were paid for your catastrophic failure of an app and then you should be permanently banned from election contracts.
Democracy dies in the Shadow
Maybe don't be named SHADOW and then develop an app for recording voting data.
also don't take money from candidates in that race.
Have you made clear that you have zero affiliation with DJ Shadow? This seems like an opportune time to set the record straight.
While Democrats are trying to learn to count, you can COUNT ON my huuuuuuge list of accomplishments (but you will need more hands!!)
Thank you to my SECRETARY OF COUNTING @conchrepublic83
twitter.com/conchrepublic8…
#StateOfTheUnion
- DACA remains
- record border crossings
- lowest deportations in 20 years
- no wall
- border fence collapsed
- birthright citizenship remains
- border still open
- Roger Stone not pardoned
- wars for Israel
- endless monitoring
- whites under attack
Don't worry guys, you did great, we should grab drinks sometime to celebrate denying those smug leftists a clear victory! Cheers!
Saw lots of money
Pathetic cheaters... nothing related to the DNC can be trusted
So Pete never donated to you?
All time was spent brainstorming to find the name "CaucusClick" rather than actually making the app.
Actually, this looks like an app built without designers. It needs a lot of work on front and back end.
Bro, I think this is straight HTML and CSS
I’m pretty sure that’s not their app though. I think that one got pulled in by a rumor.
I think you’re right. And from 1998
As long as the back end is secure, fast and reliable. I can step in and change the whole thing in a couple of weeks.
holy shit is this real lmao
I don’t think so. That looked like it was on the App Store. Media didn’t understand what the fuck they were saying but explained people loading it directly from a developer account.
Lmao no sql injection vulns here, nosiree, glad to output raw errors to the end user
They aren't even verified, homie.
Just wait until #YangUpgradesAmerica
Can’t wait #YangUpgradesAmerica
That’s the app???
This is not the app. The app is not on the app store.
So how much did HRC pay you and Robby Mook....And how much did Mayor Cheat give you?
What's depressing is everyone there will just jump to another worthless app funded by DNC ghouls and wont be penalized in any wya
you people are bad human beings
Let me guess: You hired your devs off, like, Upwork or Fiverr for ~$3.00/hour?
Is this the end result of telling all those people to learn computer coding?
You’re fired
Unbelievable. lol!
Too busy concentrating on how to manipulate the final tally than making sure the app works in the first place.
I haven't looked - is Shadow contracted for every caucus and primary? If so, pass the popcorn.
My state already announced they won't be using them (some other corrupt company instead), but I think New Hampshire will be using these crooks.
Good gig if you can get it. No one requires you actually perform, lol!
this mf said softward
Good eye! Didn't even notice Krista Davis, CTO misspelled her job title on her LinkedIn. How perfect, and extra embarrassing...
CTO that misspells software is a joke that tells itself. Only in Hillary Clinton's immediate circle would such a thing be a thing.
Corruption on top of corruption.... this goes quite deep.
Yep, and @BOOMER4K has me thinking it's probably by design. Knowing how Hillary operates, this is a realistic possibility... twitter.com/BOOMER4K/statu…
Could this Iowa debacle been done on purpose?
If the Democrats want to start the narrative that the integrity of the 2020 should be called into question, might as well start at the beginning.
They know they have no shot anyway, they can afford to look inept.
Ken Dilanian on Twitter
“US intel officials tell me they are watching and learning from the Iowa debacle. The mere perception of a problem--even though the vote count is not in doubt -- is undermining confidence in the election.”
twitter.com
Shadow is the perfect name for you guys. Keeping everyone in the dark...
i love it when people can't tell if i'm inept or corrupt! that's exactly the vibe i want to put out in the world!
You tried to shadow the result but got caught when someone alerted that Bernie Sanders campaign is recording each and every precinct by themselves. Go clean your shit now and release the data.
this happens when you hire PRogrammers based by RACE QUOTA! and TRANS WOKE!
not based on: MERIT!
the only diversity is IDEAS!
the only MERIT: is MERIT!
The USA is a meritrocracy1
not a cronytocracy!
Literal supervillain group.
Technology!
Translation - Shadow Inc is the fall guy and it was just them who was incompetent, not the democrats or the leadership that fixed the 2016 primary for Hillary. Carry on -
You forgot the line through your S to denote $.
LOL! TRUMP WON!! TRUMP WON!!!! LOL!!!
When you can’t even trust your own shadow.
#seewhatIdidthere
Shouldn't you all be job hunting today rather than posting? You are finished
takes a long time to rat-fuck, huh?
Any comment about @PeteButtigieg's affiliation with your company and the obvious conflict of interest? Any comment about team Hillary's affiliation with your company?
Any entity that prefaces statements with "we sincerely regret" is almost always full of shit.
You mean Boeing? lol
Except for the mighty B-52.
We're busy making s@*t up.
Reparations
Show us the code.
Dissolve yourself.
shady be like
Drop out, endorse Sanders.
Just make sure they NEVER use you for national elections!!
Yes, Regret. Absolutely. Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha!
SHADOW!!
follow
Really couldn’t think of a better name?
What kills me is that this app would have remained in the shadows were it not for the team's complete and total ineptitude. I'm sure it was their intent to silently weasel their way in there between voter & result.
The corporatist/Clinton wing of the Democratic party is a curse.
They are also cursed. Losers gonna lose.
"Cursed" implies that they're not acting of their own free-will volition and can not be blamed for their incomparable idiocy, though.
"A curse" is what they really are: an ancient relic of the past that needs to be broken apart and sealed away underground by several wizards.
lmao your company is finished brah
A do nothing democrat company
Break up Big Tech! #WinWithWarren
Shadow. Really? You have serious deficiencies in marketing 101 but ok...???
Absolute incompetence and neglect! You're completely to blame with the DNC & their favorite(s)!
R A T S
Yeah. No.
Incompetent at best, malcompetent at worst. None of you should ever have jobs anywhere near any kind of important information ever again.
(Possibly sensitive)
Nothing wrong with a good old fashion calculator with pencil and paper
Guys your name is Shadow, Inc come on
I hope so bc you may have just lost the election for dems.. what a failure..sure it was the clintonites trying to screw Bernie again?!
So and who did y’all choose to be the “winner”?
You know where you can stick that dark money, right?
Honestly why is the media insisting on instantaneous results? Why are they making taking the time for accuracy seem dirty? #IowaCaucuses
Everyone on your staff belongs in jail.
You shouldn't be allowed to continue running your shady business.
You couldn't pick a obvious name to tell us you're the bad guys
You all have so much explaining to do
Hi Hillary
You should just close shop.
i hope you guys are lawyered up.
We apologise again for the fault in the Caucus. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
Crowdstrike Jr.
Incompetence
Thanks, motherfathers...
This is Shadow Inc:
We are campaign and technology veterans who have built and implemented technology at Hillary for America, Obama for America, Google, Kiva, Apple, the AFL-CIO, and the DNC.
Hillary is screwing Bernie again and most dem voters are too clueless to understand.
(Possibly sensitive)
No problem. The Iowa caucuses are like diamonds, artificially inflated and not worth money.
“Well, besides that issue, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”
Skeptical...what sort of name is Shadow for such an important app!? #dems get it together!
Just take the L, fam.
Last night’s incident in Iowa is gonna be in textbooks in the future. Maybe as a case study.
That ratio though
Just file for bankruptcy now, ask trump for ideas on how to do it
Thank you for your work now please end your company and never be heard from again.
can't wait to nationalize your company tbh
Thanks for creating chaos and distrust all across the country.
It’s cool we can’t have paper ballots and results cause the rats would chew them up so thank you for your service
You're about to go under
no one trust you now
How much is Bloomberg paying you for rigging this?
It’s not like your app was going to be used for anything important, like democracy or some shit.
Putin denied very strongly doing it. And I have to tell you, I don't see why it would be him. Derp
Have fun in jail
we, on the other hand, will not regret putting your buddy Pete in a hamster wheel for the rest of his life to produce electricity for our new M4A funded children's hospital.
You sincerely cannot continue to be involved in the primary process.
Go to hell you mutants
You've just messed the whole election up. There are people who actually know how to build an app that will charge less than 60k for a months work. #BooHillary
Could you let us know what other states are using your software? I want to make sure I am free those evenings.
Shady inc. #MayorCheat
Quiet part loud
I'm pretty sure Tom Brady is connected, too.
I read this and almost crumpled onto the floor at work 😂😂
He paid them so technically they work for him
As intended. Criminal
You tried to grift using your political inside game and fucked up and hurt our democracy badly.
So now you must commit ritual seppuku.
Pick up the sword. Film it. Go ahead.
Rise and bind (your innards) let's get this dead
rest assured that not a single person associated with this clusterfuck of inept cronyism will ever face a single consequence, other than a temporary spate of embarassment
You think they’re capable of embarrassment?
Correct
You cannot make this stuff up, their Twitter bio states:
“Creating political power for the progressive movement by building accessible, user-centered tech infrastructure.”
jfc
PAPER BALLOTS and PHOTO IDS! Bam!!
Which they will laugh about over drinks at future fundraisers.
Or they’re all basking in the glow of intended consequences
Now please go stand over there next to the Designer of Obamacare.gov and the person at IRS handling non-profit applications and returns. You know, Old What's Their Names...
I suggest ritual bukakki.
That is truly depressing.
They are not even embarrassed...it’s just a typical day in the left’s world. 🤦♀️
People are still voting @DNC so they're used to embarrassment
Except for those on the right getting suspended from this stellar platform for rightfully dragging those toads...
Oh, I really doubt they're introspective enough to feel embarrassed.
What consequences should they face?
Legal? Financial?
For starters, they should never work on politics or software development again and retrain as valet parkers
They should have to: Learn to Mine Coal
Not many coal jobs left...
Apparently code jobs are the place to be.
Or coal miners
Or, they could learn to code.
Isn’t coding for a heavy lift like that pretty damn complex?
I’ve never coded before so just asking.
Better incompetence than criminal?
You're probably right. Instead of something that complex we should put them in charge of something simple like the American healthcare system.
Lol, think they need not apply for that job...
Best to hide for a while. Maybe change names?
Hell, Go into protective custody.
“Learn to code. Um, okay, learn to park.”
I can’t do either.
Bit harsh on valet parkers.
They're already skilled at driving. They've spent the last 2 days driving down the chances for a DNC win in 2020.
Nah, not really.::
Iowa is going R anyway.
Okay.
I’ve talked to several coders today who said this stuff goes haywire all the time..and without test runs.
But yeah, DNC waves bye!
Especially when they give advice like this:
twitter.com/ShadowIncHQ/st…
Organizing tip —Ask, shut up, and you shall receive 📲
Alex Peffer on Twitter
“This person on Shadow went on a full journey in 40 minutes”
twitter.com
Not with my car!
They ran Hillary's campaign so they have pedigree.
Even though she got destroyed.
they probably can't feel shame anyway
They don’t feel embarrassment...ask Jennifer Rubin and Jim Acosta
seems like this would be an ideal moment to deploy "Learn to Code."
If I were them, I think I would be letting all around me know I was *not* suicidal nor did I have any suicidal ideations...because, well...who wants to be Epstein'ed...
Inept cronyism new definition for “crime”? We are literally holding an impeachment trial for this very thing.
Oh relax. Like the Dems run a fair game any way.
No. They don't. Look to their superdelegates as further evidence.
In hindsight, maybe Shadow, Inc. wasn't such a great name choice.
But it sure is fun to watch.
I have a katana they can borrow
i'll buy one in case they need multiple
I think a wakizashi would suffice.
And please let Bill do the Rifftrax of it when you're finished!
Killary already told them how to comit it in case they did not “do what I say” kind of thing happened...
Due to the unforseen failure of our Seppku app we cannot verify if we have redeemed any honour. We apologise to the Emperor for the inconvenience we have caused.
Well said.
(Possibly sensitive)
Or ask permission from your funding sources - and who are they ?
Dude, you are done. Shut it all done. You’ve proven to the world you do not have a single competent programmer, tester or project manager on staff. Nobody in their right mind would ever use this amateur hour software.
Lmao. Progressive jerkoffs. MAGA 2020
could you possibly be anymore sketchy.
Are you a subsidiary of Boeing, by chance? How hard is it to make something so simplistically binary...and user friendly? Well, if you're not owned by Boeing, I'm sure they'll want to buy your company soon, because you've just crashed an election.
The democrats are rigging another election, after screaming for 3 years about bogus conspiracy theories regarding election validity.
Building that app should have been a simple affair. You’re either bad actors or incredibly incompetent.
You didn't test it? Are you that good that you can write code blindfolded? Seriously? I have a pretty good coding team and they make mistakes on a daily. You were paid 50k for this app? For that money we would have had a QA team running tests for months.
Think they were paid 60k by Iowa and 60k by Nevada if I read correctly. Also, folks were complaining about it several days ago.
This reminds me of the shoddy ACA rollout. Somebody took way too much for granted.
And on a really important night. It couldn't have been worse.
https://t.co/xvYdv7975s twitter.com/aaronguilmette…
People who think that the Iowa caucus clusterfuck is due to the DNC's attempt to rig the results through tech has never worked in software development. It's hard enough to get code to do simple tasks; complex tasks like subverting democracy takes more skill than they employed.
QA worked for them. They found that it worked to get bogus returns for the candidate they wanted. Cmon it was paid for by the dems at 50k per state that uses the app. I wonder whose sons and or daughters work for them?
Yes Lord...Preach!!!
Someone failed their coding class
Eat shit!
Nah you're doing great
You’ve caused SO MUCH DAMAGE! I hope all of you never work in politics again.
WHO WON IOWA?!
Maybe next time don't name your company Shadow, Inc.
Spin down your entire grift
We sincerely regret the delay in the reporting of the results of last night’s Iowa caucuses and the uncertainty it has caused to the candidates, their campaigns, and Democratic caucus-goers.
the app reported incorrectly for certain candidates and when cross referenced with the paper ballots it looks like you tried to give Budiggeg and Biden more delegates that would have went to Bernie. some have called it cheating?
If you're a democrat, it's 'none dare call it cheating'. (Hey kids, an obscure political reference) 😉
Hey, Bernie, are you going to grow a pair or what? 😏
That's OK, either way it's lose, lose for the commies and win, win for the country. 😆
Bye, bye Democrat Party!
like...is this a real account? 😂
you should all be fired, which means you will all actually be getting big bonuses probably
This isn’t an Onion report?
Yep, we know why, bought and paid for by Mayor Pete with Hillary's henchman @RobbyMook leading the way. Ur company can't be trusted
Delete your account AND your app.
That new "report political interference" button Twitter has may come in handy....Bye, Shadow Inc.
We don't believe you. You had one job. It's hours from the over night. Post the truth or STFU.
When are you open sourcing the app for review?
This jeopardizes the entire election and feeds right into the Trump Campaigns claims about malfeasance in the process!! #Shameful
You are awful. Also, "shadow"? Was "Evil Corp" taken?
Incompetent and corrupt
How do we believe anything you say when Pete gas given you many and you have Hillary campaign people on staff?
Your regret isn't gonna cut it. This shouldn't have been a problem in the first place.
Why thank you!
Why did you think it was appropriate to take money from Pete?
You should all go to prison.
How are things looking for Nevada?🧐🤔🤷♀️
Only the #Shadow knows!
Just go away.
Shadow is a really great name for an App of this nature- was Cabal already taken?
Why did you name your company after the bad guys from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2?
(Possibly sensitive)
You just gave Trump 4 more years. Congrats
Learn to code
No you don’t lol
DELETE YOURSELF!!!!!!!!
Next time maybe you wont outsource the coding to the lowest bidder. And maybe do a little beta testing?
#IowaCaucusDisaster #IowaCaucas #IowaCaucuses2020 #ShadowInc
#Election2020
I think your issue was that you weren't as independent as you appeared. And, if everyone involved is being honest, accepting a $44,000 donation from one of the candidates does them a disservice by casting doubts on their unexpected success.
Rigged
Change your company name to Shady Inc.
So if you had the core data. Isn’t that all that matters. Why not release it immediately if it wasn’t corrupted?
Lesson here: only way to protect American elections is to use paper ballots. Technology is not our friend in this situation.
So can you explain in more detail the relationship between you and some candidates like @PeteButtigieg amd @JoeBiden
At this point those results are null and void! It can’t be trusted!
That's what you were paid to do tho, right?
Cool. Now open source your code.
We all hope you get trounced in legal issues, but we also know that you will be unscathed.
Go back to that open manhole cover. We dont want your disengenuous apologies.
Thank you for reminding us why we shouldn’t trust Democrats with our healthcare, education, or just about everything else!
Ya blew it
Dumb company with dumber customers.
I hope you never get a contract again
Actually, thank you for exposing how easily manipulated/hacked our primaries really are. Thanks technology! Though, to be be brutally honest, y'all should be looking into a new profession. Coding is NOT your thing. Have you thought of learning to mine coal?
You took money from one of the candidates. That should be utterly disqualifying to both parties involved
Lol fuck right off
You have the right to remain silent, you have the right to........
Open source the code of the app used in Iowa! As a software developer, I believe it irresponsible to use _any_ software to report election results. Clearly we differ in opinion there. But next best thing to do is open source the repository to let the world inspect.
Hillary?
RUSSIA!!!!
"But we didn't want to get "Akrancided" so we did as she told us "
there fixed it for you
You should return the $ to the Iowa and Nevada Democratic Parties after failing so spectacularly.
no, they should probably face charges for election fraud.
We must criminalize election interference. Call it the Shadow Bill.
Would that be a...wait for it...a #ShadowBan
It is probably funneled through Foreign Aide & Canada.
That would take a cut of all the money Pelops invested in them tho
They’re probably a small, idealistic startup with very little experience designing/implementing a near-real time, multi-site, distributed data collection and aggregation architecture.
I.e., the money is probably spent and gone.
I'm sure the next stop is a courtroom somewhere in Iowa.
One chance to make a first impression,and you blew it.
What else do you do, other than software? Your company should not have another client.
Shadow, Inc another victim of the Democrat Poop Touch
not your fault Shadow, you did not know that everything the democrats touch will turn to shit
#ShitShow #DemsPoopTouch
Hey you seem really bad at this thing you do, maybe stop doing it.
You screwed it up, but if you make it right before anyone notice...
Hey. If you’re going to be an evil organization that undermines democracy you might want to consider a name change.
No reason to be so on the nose.
On behalf of the #Trump2020 campaign - our thanks for a job well done!
Shadow Inc huh? Totally Fits.
It's cool. Dont worry about it. We all have off days.
You had one job
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With that kind of failure on your record, imho you need to prove that your one year old company is actually capable and qualified to produce the software you want to sell. How did you get that contract in the first place? 😕
Forget how to code
I sincerely regret your involvement in any facet of this election
yall are some rats
Signed!
How much were you paid to screw over Bernie?
Is there a way I can short your company?
Ex Clinton staffers who got paid by Pete - wow what a masterful cluster this is.
M O O K ' D ❗
And will be closing the doors next week. Because, how can you ever have a trustworthy business after this?
more like you sincerely regret not being able to rig the election without getting caught
Apps make everything objectively worse
Y'all suck!
Calling it now- this tweet will get the Ratio of the Year
Devs right on it
This is what happens when you prioritize diversity above competence.
Too late
thanks for destroying democracy
Boooooooo! Wtf is with your creepy-ass name? BOOOOOOO!!
You are proof we don't live in a meritocracy.
How much money were you payed for last night's disaster?
cant wait to give you shitheads healthcare
Nevada caucus won’t use this thank god
as a qa tester, producer, qa manager and qa lead, you guys have goofed in probably the most astonishing way I've seen in a nearly decade and a half career goddamn
you have set a new gold standard for fuckups.
Ya fucked up, big time
Delete your company.
I sincerely regret that you exist.
quit your day job. you are all really really bad at it.
What a stupid company name...... what Deep State Inc and Fraud Guarantee Inc were taken?
no you don't
1) Delete your account and 2) dissolve your company
Ok hey Bad Guy Inc.
Uncertainty is right!
If you're really sorry you'll give Pete his $42K back
I appreciate you. Democracy needed some disruption.
"We sincerely regret that we were too dumb to cheat this election and we got caught"
I sincerely wish you all to eat shit.
SHAME
What is this? twitter.com/chastime/statu…
Джон Керрі про Шокіна: "Ми знали: для того, щоби Україна вижила, і вийшла переможцем із революції, після Майдану, вони мали його здихатися."
Get ready to be sued into the Shadows by all campaigns. Except Pete
Private companies have no place in the electoral process. Get out
Given that Shadow is primarily known for ruining the 2020 Iowa caucus, and the dev team is made up of Hillary Clinton 2016 programmers primarily known for losing to Trump, why should anyone have any faith in Shadow doing anything?
Translation: our app worked as planned by the DNC - deny Bernie a clear victory in Iowa.
It might be possible that this is simple incompetence, but it's more likely to me that #DNCisCorrupt and you're trying to screw Bernie.
Learn to code. Properly, next time. 🙄
Why did @PeteButtigieg give you over $40,000?
All time favorite political blunder
Bet you didn’t have any hangup depositing that $$$$$$$$ though, did ya
I sincerely regret that you had anything to do at all with this process. Thanks for fucking up spectacularly.
Gooooo fuck yourselllllllves
Why would you replace a system that works with software that doesn't?
YES! TWEET THROUGH IT!
When shadow comes out like "Bernie wins big!" Literally NOBODY will know how to handle their shit and I'm here for the dumpster fire
Oh for sure dude
When coders grew up on common core.
Oh yeah, btw, nice name. Who's the genius that came up with that one?
100% somebody is going to jail for this despite this PR statement. #MayorCheat
NO MORE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, PLEASE!
How do you guys suck this bad at your jobs
No one believes any of the shit you guys say. You aren’t fooling anyone... stop with the corruption @DNC !
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant” so I feel like it’s kind of ominous that your company is named Shadow
Shadow Inc.
A Putin Corporation
you literally had one job
You can't even rig competently.
So well funded, yet so incompetent
We are watching. And if you try to change the results, we will not be silent.
"Creating political power for the progressive movement by building accessible, user-centered tech infrastructure."
and people think trump is corrupt. the whole system is.
LOL. Sure you do!!! 😂
keep your chin up
Yeah, well you lost me at "Shadow" ya freakin' Captains of #Branding.
Seriously, how many #Adderall lunches did it take to birth that #brainchild, geniuses?
Might as well have named your company iChad. #Dipshits.
hey, are you guys the CIA? if so, can you hook a friend of mine up with a job?
You don’t regret it, you caused it!!!
You should regret the huge conflict of interest that you created by accepting money from a campaign you are actively supporting.
Question: why do you think transmitting results over the internet is a secure process? You do understand foreign interference is a concern, and that you made it significantly easier with this app?
Then there’s the issue of quality control. There’s no word, no transparency. Wtf?
Oh, and why did the Buttigieg campaign pay you tens of thousands of dollars? Could you provide some clarity so we might actually believe what you say from here on out? Thanks.
I’d also love to hear why you thought sideloading an app was a good idea.
You need to shut down now.
Thank you, Shadow Inc.
Your company is pure evil.
I don't care. The only thing for you to do is apologize and dissolve
It’s nit your fault, anything the dems are involved in turns into a dumpster fire
Pete the rat put you up to this it's ok to admit it
Have you guys heard of AWS?
This isn't even an apology, you couldn't even manage an apology. Amazing.
Not forgiven.
✌🔥 your company is Done! It will never be used again
It served its purpose. Mission accomplished. They don’t care
What a terrible frickin name
Remember when Democrats told coal miners to "Learn to Code"?
Good times, good times.
Remember when Republicans didn't care about coal emissions and how they'll give your kids asthma and chronic bronchitis
Remember when Democrats gave people in Flint lead poisoning?
While Flint is a huge tragedy and Democrats are largely at fault, let's not equivocate 24,000 deaths per year caused by coal pollution with what's happening there
"Pronouns" lol
"Beagle Wrangler" lol
Nice pixels, got any images even more indecipherable?
No see I can tell what that is, you're bad at this
It is bad to be talking to a Democrat idiot yes.
Good thing I'm not an idiot, which is clearly why you can't get enough of me
Since when is Rick Snyder a Democrat?
Another Democrat trick: Blame some Republican.
Says the Republican foisting the blame onto Democrats
Says the Democrat foisting the blame onto a Republican who hasn't been in office since 2018 and wasn't able to persuade Republicans to nominate a preferred successor, thus ending up in eternal political irrelevance
Hey btw coal is still really bad
Y'all got some mad deflection skills
Coal is bad, btw, and it's also bad what happened with the caucus in Iowa
Sorry Jabami-san, but the buck stops with Snyder. He appointed the city manager who switched from Detroit's water system to Flint's river water. Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health and Human Services which were headed by Snyder were a major factor too
Oh no, you're invading the Republican safe space of sloughing off all responsibility for everything bad they do onto Democrats
He's a Republican and therefore a perfect angel who was in no position of authority to do anything in the face of the minor Dem officials who fucked up
It's tragic how he, as governor, was somehow entirely powerless
And Obama's a Democrat and therefore a perfect angel who was in no position of authority to do anything in the face of the minor Republican official who fucked up by enabling minor Dem officials who fucked up.
It's tragic how he, as President, was somehow entirely powerless.
Remember like 3 minutes ago when I admitted that the Democrats shouldered some of the blame
Or is your attention span as limited as your debate skills
Remember when Right leaning "democrats" were elected in Flint.
Remember when Republicans didn't care about coal emissions and how they'll give your kids asthma and chronic bronchitis
So it seems like Republicans are bad and Democrats also have no good solutions
Proposed solutions: using less coal
Republican response: no thx because $$$
OMG really?? coal has been around for centuries...give it a break..
So has ritual human sacrifice, do you have a point?
yeah, Stop fear mongering..this stuff has been around for centuries, like prostitution, drugs, etc.. come up with a viable solution but do not keep trying to trade -off this for that. solves nothing.
Things don't stop being bad because they've "been around for centuries"
Seriously let me know when you have a point
As a proud West Virginian who works with the coal business, it's a thing of the past.
Jobs that took 200+ people to do a century ago, now take 10, and at this point it isn't being phased out because of Democrats. It's being phased out because of innovation...
...Gas is so much more efficient, and even now we have the leading conservative party in the UK who are embracing solar energy, because it is the future. The need for non-renewable energy will be minuscule in a matter of a couple decades.
If Bernie=winning
Then
Run crashapp.exe
Believable!
Fuck off
"we sincerely succeeded in ratfucking bernie"
Tell your company’s ceo to keep to screwing Pete’s campaign strategist and not America
The campaign that invested in you seems pretty certain.
Eat shit.
LMAO. Agreed!!!
Guess what? It doesn’t matter...
#Bernie2020
Ssooo no trial run?
It's the Obama unaffordable healthcare website all over again.
It’s a failure of our justice system that all of you are not already being held in a supermax prison
Please tell us why you have ties to Mayor Pete via ACRONYM
BOOOOOO
Commit sepuku
Don’t mention the delay in reporting the caucus. You mentioned once but I think you got away with it.
Why aren’t you verified yet?
You should be prosecuted for this mess.
Kick rocks
OK guys, no worries Hillary and company has this!!
I'm sure Donna Brazile is on the case for Shadow!
At best you are extraordinarily incompetent
Russian hackers at it again! #DemandVoterID
... because screw Bernie.
Less talky more county plz.
Shaudy
why did you name your company Shadow?
Do we know which caucus won the Iowa Caucasian?
Your staff know very well there is no uncertainty. Bernie is a candidate that unites moderates. If you genuinely care about your party and country, you will acknowledge that reality. Please understand that fighting for the establishment’d Democratic platform won’t lead to victory
Your "app" can't do what google docs does for free. Whoops.
They forgot to remove the Hillary cheat code and it screwed up the transfer when she wasn't on the ballot.
This is really shady and ill-timed. I do hope you'll consent to an external audit.
Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself.
not buyin it. we’ve got loads of photos of y’all being chummy with the buttigieg campaign, he FINANCED your app, please kindly go away and never return.
You guys should really get out of politics and go back to school for something useful. We need more plumbers and electricians in this country, not more grifters.
I'm pretty sure your original logo had a line through the middle of it but an intern was like "Maybe it shouldn't be a straight up dollar sign."
Excited to see the next Sonic the Hedgehog starring @TomPerez as an ugly blue democracy monster that runs from @ShadowIncHQ and collects paper trails lined with compensatory gold for a opportunist rat called Cheeseman before it all goes up in flames. #MayorCheat #TomPerezResign
No you do not. You lived up to your brand name and have cast a shadow of doubt on the results. Shame.
the check cleared, right? Just bail.
Who needs Russians when Americans themselves can do such a standup job of fucking up elections. Shoe's on the other foot now that all of Hillary's campaign people are the cause of it --- they're all busy shirking all responsibility.