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Miles Parks

Iowa Republicans will use an app to transmit caucus results. Sound familiar?

A precinct captain displays the Iowa Democratic Party caucus reporting app on his phone on Feb. 4, 2020. The app's technical difficulties marred Democrats' 2020 Iowa caucuses. (Nati Harnik/AP)

Four years ago, Doug Jones was driving a stack of papers to Des Moines.

A now-retired expert in voting technology at the University of Iowa, and a former Democratic caucus precinct leader, Jones had a bad feeling in 2020 when he found out a third party was building opaque software meant to transmit results from the local level to the state party in real time.

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