https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-saving-grace-of-the-iowa-caucus-meltdown/

The unfolding controversy over identifying the winner of the Iowa caucuses after a newly introduced app for reporting the results failed has put election technology in the spotlight once again. That is rarely a good thing.

Flippant as it may sound, it’s good that the fiasco happened in a small state and at the beginning of the nomination season. It’s because of incidents like this that I’ve never been bothered by the nomination process beginning in Iowa. Candidates and the public need some time to ramp up their efforts; doing so in small states minimizes some of the consequences of mistakes that inevitably happen. I’d always thought of this in terms of candidate messages, the public’s response, and media coverage. Now, it’s clear that this point also applies to election administration and technology. The Iowa episode conjures the possibility of several positive outcomes, but only if the public and the parties will reflect clearly on what’s happened.