Iowa Caucus App Shadow. Shadow Inc. was picked in secret by the Iowa Democratic Party after its leaders consulted with the Democratic National Committee on vetting vendors and security protocols for developing a phone app used to gather and tabulate the caucus results. Shadow, a tech developer started by veterans of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, built the app being blamed for delaying Iowa Democratic caucus results. Curiously, David Plouffe was asked about Acronym and Shadow on MSNBC on Monday as the Iowa caucus debacle unfolded. Plouffe, seemingly unfamiliar with the app, said he didn’t know about it and.
Shadow is based in Denver, Colorado, and describes itself as “an independent, for-profit technology company” that contracted with the Iowa Democratic party to build a caucus reporting mobile app. The Iowa Democratic Party and the Nevada Democratic Party retained Shadow to develop its caucus app. Shadow has also been retained for digital services by Buttigieg’s and Biden’s campaigns.
State campaign finance records indicate the Iowa Democratic Party paid Shadow, a tech company that joined with Acronym last year, more than $60,000 for “website development” over two installments in November and December of last year. A Democratic source with knowledge of the process said those payments were for the app that caucus site.
Shadow is based in Denver, Colorado, and describes itself as “an independent, for-profit technology company” that contracted with the Iowa Democratic party to build a caucus reporting mobile app. Shadow is based in Denver, Colorado, and describes itself as “an independent, for-profit technology company” that contracted with the Iowa Democratic party to build a caucus reporting mobile app. State campaign finance records obtained by HuffPost show that the Iowa Democratic Party paid Shadow $60,000 to build the app last November, and sources briefed on the app by the party told the New. And now as questions on Shadow Inc. arise with the failures in the Iowa caucuses, ACRONYM is seeking to distance itself from the app. MORE: Iowa Democratic Party releases the majority of caucus.
