After Democrats
Caught Meddling in Israel’s Election: Iowa Caucus Debacle Happens
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz February 5, 2020 , 5:04 pm
“And in the time of those kings, the God of
Heaven will establish a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, a kingdom that
shall not be transferred to another people. It will crush and wipe out all
these kingdoms, but shall itself last forever” Daniel 2:44 (The Israel
Bible™)
Buttigeg and Warren (courtesy: screenshot)
The first elections to determine the Democrat party’s
candidate for the 2020 national presidential elections were held in Iowa on Monday
and they were, by all accounts, an unmitigated disaster. The Democratic
National Convention used an untested app by a company for precincts to report
caucus votes. The app did not work and neither did the backup hotline system.
The DNC resorted to a time-consuming manual tally based on information called
in by precinct chairs or pictures sent on their smartphones. On Tuesday
evening, the results were finally announced.
Election workers attempting to call results in using the
IDP Caucus Hotline faced long wait times, and one precinct chair was even hung
up on after waiting an hour to report results.
According to a report in the NY Times,
installing the app required bypassing the phone’s security settings and a
two-factor authentication and PIN passcodes. Only one-quarter of the
1,700 precinct chairs successfully downloaded and installed the app.
The delay led to confusion with all four of the Democrat
front-runners (Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg)
claiming victory.
The DNC’s decision to use the app was questionable. Work
on the app began just two months before the caucus, leading to a product that
was difficult to download and produced inaccurate results. Produced by a
company called Shadow Inc., whose previous work was marked by a string of
failures, including a near bankruptcy. Political cronyism may have had a role
in the bad decision as Shadow Inc. was founded by veterans of Hillary Clinton’s
unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign.
In 2016 primaries, the DNC successfully used a system
developed by Microsoft. Microsoft was quick to announce they had no hand in the
Iowa caucus this week.
Perhaps most perplexing was the decision to use the app
despite concerns of its cybersecurity. This is even more perplexing given the
ongoing claims by Democrats that President Trump’s 2016 victory was due to
hacking of their campaign.
The campaign of Joe Biden began to use the app’s texting
technology and digital advertising consulting aimed at small-dollar donors last
year but stopped due to concerns surrounding the app’s security.
Much of the blame was placed on the company’s lack of
experience and expertise made even worse by their rush to get the app into
service. Shadow issued an apology/explanation on its website.
We sincerely regret the delay in the reporting of the
results of last night’s Iowa caucuses and the uncertainty it has caused to the
candidates, their campaigns, and Democratic caucus-goers. As the Iowa
Democratic Party has confirmed, the underlying data and collection process via
Shadow’s mobile caucus app was sound and accurate, but our process to transmit
that caucus results data generated via the app to the IDP was not. Importantly,
this issue did not affect the underlying caucus results data. We worked as
quickly as possible overnight to resolve this issue, and the IDP has worked
diligently to verify results. Shadow is an independent, for-profit technology
company that contracted with the Iowa Democratic Party to build a caucus
reporting mobile app, which was optional for local officials to use. The goal
of the app was to ensure accuracy in a complex reporting process. We will apply
the lessons learned in the future, and have already corrected the underlying
technology issue. We take these issues very seriously, and are committed to
improving and evolving to support the Democratic Party’s goal of modernizing
its election processes.
The app was funded by Acronym, a nonprofit organization
that is focused on helping liberal and left-wing causes in the digital arena.
After the Iowa debacle, Acronym is distancing itself from Shadow.
— Kyle Tharp
(@kylewilsontharp) February 4, 2020
President Trump unabashedly bashed his opposition.
“When will the Democrats start blaming
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, instead of their own incompetence for the voting
disaster that just happened in the Great State of Iowa?
— Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2020
It is interesting to note that the current dilemma faced
by the DNC mirrors Israel’s current election crisis. After Defense Minister
Avigdor Liberman left the coalition led by Prim Minister Netanyahu last year,
elections were held in April but no party was able to form a coalition, forcing
new elections. For the first time in Israeli history, a second round of general
elections was called for. These too were unsuccessful in leading to the
formation of a government. In one month, Israel is headed to the polls for a
third time.
This unprecedented impasse was actually predicted
forty years ago by the mystic, Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri, who made the cryptic
prediction, “When there will be elections but there will not be a
government, the Messiah will arrive.”
Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on
Mount Zion, saw a bit of divine justice in the predicament of the DNC.
“When the Democrats blessed Israel, supported Israel,
they were successful in politics,” Rabbi Berger told Breaking Israel News. “But
they have changed and in a sly way, they are no cursing Israel. The Torah says
that those who curse Israel will be cursed.”
“I will bless those who bless you And curse
him that curses you; And all the families of the earth Shall bless themselves
by you.” Genesis 12:3
“That is a given. But it does not mean that their curse
will harm Israel,” Rabbi Berger said.
The rabbi referred to the example of Balaam, a wicked
magician sent by Balak, the king of Moab, t curse Israel. In the end, Balaam
blessed Israel, earning the ire of Balak.
“Having elections and not electing a leader is a disaster
for the Democrats. But for Israel, this will lead them to greater service of
God. Their intention was to curse Israel and it was returned, measure for
measure. Like Pharoah in Egypt, they were cursed by the utterance of their own
mouths, but their curse turned to a blessing for Israel.”
49 delegates are awarded according to the results of the
Iowas caucus, of which 41 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the
results of the caucuses. The next primary contest will be in New Hampshire on
Tuesday.
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