A new early-voting system, high turnout and questions about a never-before-used digital tool being used to process results could threaten the success of the Nevada Democratic caucuses on Saturday, elections experts say
Caucus volunteers — who staff the precincts and run the caucuses — began receiving hands-on training with iPads that contain the tool on Tuesday. The training will continue until Saturday, according to the Nevada Democratic Party.
."As was the case in Iowa, you have the party doing multiple new things at once. Here, one is new technology, and two is new rules, with the early voting."Caucus volunteers will call in results to the state Democratic Party via a"secure, dedicated hotline." However, they're free to use any phone to do this, including personal cellphones and landlines.
Complicating matters is an expectation of high turnout — meaning the sheer amount of work to be done will be enormous — along with the question of how secure the iPads and the digital tool they contain are. , a nonprofit that conducts election technology research, said that because the Google App suite and Cloud are encrypted,"there is very little likelihood for any data tampering or alteration issues."
"I have a lot of confidence in Nevada," Perez told CNN, adding that there had already been more than 1,000 training sessions for 3,000 volunteers."A really, really strong party. We have gone to school on the lessons of Iowa. We're as low-tech as humanly possible while still preserving efficiency."
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