Enough with the conspiracy, mystery, scheming, evil explanations of what's going on. Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, and that's all that's going on here.
This is a bunch of amateur app coders, managed by amateur product designers and sales people, who got paid by clueless amateur voting registrars, to make an app that was rushed, not tested at scale, deployed without training, and allowed to get Iowa into this situation by someone not treating it with the seriousness it deserved.
This is a bunch of amateur app coders, managed by amateur product designers and sales people, who got paid by clueless amateur voting registrars, to make an app that was rushed, not tested at scale, deployed without training, and allowed to get Iowa into this situation by someone not treating it with the seriousness it deserved.
No more, no less. Just normal human incompetence.