Pete Buttigieg likely won the Iowa caucus on Monday night, though the jury is technically still out. Unfortunately, he was robbed of the opportunity to fully celebrate his historic achievement because of a delay in the official results.
Initially, it was believed the delay was due to a malfunction in the mobile app being used track results malfunctioning. But it turns out, that’s not the only reason.
Now, the chaos is also being attributed to Trump supporters intentionally flooding the phone hotline used by Democratic precinct chairs with prank calls in an effort to hack the results.
The hotline number was posted on the right-wing message board 4chan along with a call to “clog the lines.”
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“Uh oh how unfortunate it would be for a bunch of mischief makers to start clogging the lines,” one anonymous user said.
Shortly after that is when the trouble began.
Yesterday, the Iowa Democratic Party confirmed it had “experienced an unusually high volume of inbound phone calls to its caucus hotline,” which included “supporters of President Trump who called to express their displeasure with the Democratic Party.”
“The unexplained, and at times hostile, calls contributed to the delay in the Iowa Democratic Party’s collection of results,” the party said in a statement, “but in no way affected the integrity of information gathered or the accuracy of data sets reported.”
The Trump campaign says it had no knowledge of supporters prank calling the hotline.
As of now, 97% of the Iowa vote is in. The results show Pete Buttigieg in an ever-so-slight lead of 0.1% over Bernie Sanders.
Related: This tweet from Chasten Buttigieg will make you ugly cry
truthseeker
“Right wing message board 4chan”
Clearly, this person doesn’t know what 4chan is. For being a “right wing message board” why do they have a section to share pictures of naked gay men, a section to discuss Pokemon, a section to share phone wallpapers, and a section on origami LOL
Anyways, the Democrats should be more worried about their own party hacking the results. Just yesterday on Twitter, Blackhawk county’s election supervisor decided to tweet out the actual vote results from his location.
The Democratic Party also released “their official” totals but the problem is, is that the numbers differ wildly in the fact that the real numbers took over 500 votes away from Bernie and 400 away from Warren. In doing so, Mayor Pete now gets as many delegates as Bernie and Biden takes Warren’s spot in 3rd place.
How hard is it to run a small primary election in 2019 HAHA?? They’re relying on people calling a hotline if the app doesn’t work?? Simply use a private Facebook group, a private Google spreadsheet/doc, Dropbox, or anything else. Dems are a mess
Den
Clearly you are not aware of what 4chan is.
It is, AMONG OTHER THINGS, where the alt right, white nationalists and other reality challenged folks go to share their distaste for democracy and modern society in general.
truthseeker
@Den
You mean the same 4chan that supported Obama in 08 and 12. The same 4chan that was once called out by Bill O’Reilly on Fox News as a “far left website”
Ok, boomer
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
truthseeker:. I have checked out 4chan and never saw any sections for porn or naked Gay men. Site seems somewhat pedestrian…
truthseeker
@Plays
Then you need to get those glasses checked. It’s right on the home page under Adult then under Handsome Men. Then over by Other there is an LGBT section on the homepage too
Parkside
Lol, @truthseeker. “Dems need to worry about their own party hacking”! Is that what the Kremlin’s new script instructs? Not Russia, not Trump, right? It is Ukraine and the dems, lol. Out of all the websites to farm, I wonder what’s behind your trolling a gay website is. Dems are a mess? Trump committed, as expected, numerous unethical and criminal acts from the White House, and republicans let him get away with it. Now, that’s a mess. But then, what’s new? Trump got away with skipping payments to laborers, contractors and suppliers in NJ, NY & FL by calling bankruptcy several times in his luminious career as a failed developer. This con man rails against entitlement and gov assistance for the disadvantaged, but he is the one who has taken advantage of the system, millions of dollars worth, time and time again. A mess? Look at your own house. Sad.
Rock-N-RollHS
The right wing is the least of our countries problems. I think people should get their heads out of the asses and realize that foreign influence, eps Russian, has not only not been dealt with by the current administration, it is complicit.
Marshall Brown
While I am an effing extremely liberal old queer, this story smacks of fake news: No Named Sources. Unsourced or all “anonymous” sources is a hallmark of phony news. There is no reason why Iowa Democratic Party officials would not want to be cited if this was a true story.
Jared MacBride
The Russians did it! The Russians did it!
Kieran
Nothing worse than those damn Russian republicans. LOL
TomG
Of course repukelicans did that. They have no way of winning anything anymore and have to resort to cheating etc. Trump has made that acceptable since he did the same in 2016 and tried again with the Ukraine scandal.