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They aren't, they are contracting it from a firm called Shadow Inc, who also seem to have sold the same app to the Nevada Democratic Party.

Imagine being on that development team looking at Feb 22 to get it fixed.

Shadow Inc sounds.. shady.

From their site:

"When a light is shining, Shadows are a constant companion. We see ourselves as building a long-term, side-by-side “Shadow” of tech infrastructure to the Democratic Party and the progressive community at large."

https://shadowinc.io/about

I mean, a google form would have done the job just fine right? It's insane to me that they decided to have this custom built instead.

Doesn't the Docs frontend have a hard limit at 50 concurrent editors?

I wonder if you could get around that by giving groups of caucus precincts a five minute time slot?

Wouldn't this whole system be fine with a Google Form submitted to a Doc?

Google Forms appends each form submission as a rows in a spreadsheet, and isn't limited that way.

Of course, some account has to own the spreadsheet and hence have write access. So it's not the ideal vote-tallying system.

Although all edits are logged...