https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/the-iowa-caucuses-were-a-comedy-of-tech-errors-and-poor-planning/

The disastrous Iowa Democratic caucuses were hampered by a mix of tech problems and poor planning, a New York Times report published yesterday shows.

From a malfunctioning smartphone app to a barely staffed IT help desk and a key party official not knowing how to use a Google spreadsheet, plenty of problems turned the process of calculating and reporting caucus results into a laughingstock. While most of the problems were self-inflicted, the state party also suffered from jammed phone lines after 4chan users "publicly posted the election hotline number and encouraged one another to 'clog the lines.'"