@Zaku ”...it also seems like there’s already been a lot of foul play…”
Did you see that the Nevada Democratic Party just hired a Buttigieg staffer to be the Voter’s Protecton Director for the state? Apparently, she’s not supposed to have any involvement in the primary, but it certainly doesn’t look good. Especially with the history of the Iowa App, Buttigieg’s benefit from the existing errors, and the close ties to the makers of the app and his campaign.
For example, Michael Halle is a chief political strategist for Buttigieg. His wife, Tara McGowan, is The founder/CEO of Acronym, which is the parent company of Shadow that created the now infamous caucus app. Was it a nefarious plot? It’s kind of a stretch, but you’d think if the errors were truly random they wouldn’t favor Buttigieg and hurt Bernie so consistently. For most candidates the errors mostly cancel each other out. Not so for Buttigieg and Sanders.
We know the party cheated Bernie in 2016 in multiple ways. I don’t think it’s absurd to be suspicious of the process, when it’s been rigged in the past, and when it’s being managed largely by the kinds of people Bernie plans to put out of a job (the people who work the big money in politics).
Even if it’s not a coordinated effort, these conflicts of interest are gross, and should have been forbidden in the party.