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Nevada Dems Drop Caucus Tech Plan After Problems With Iowa App

Nati Harnik/AP

Reacting to tech troubles in this weeks’ presidential caucuses in Iowa, Nevada Democrats have scrapped plans to use similar technology at their caucuses in less than three weeks.

Officials in South Carolina and New Hampshire expressed confidence in their primary election systems, while Democrats in Nevada, the third state to vote, say they are taking steps to prevent the chaos seen in Iowa.

Nevada State Democratic Party chair William McCurdy II issued a statement Tuesday saying the party “can confidently say that what happened in the Iowa caucus last night will not happen in Nevada.”

The complete vote tallies from Tuesday’s caucuses in Iowa still have not been released as of early Wednesday.

Democrats in Nevada had planned to use more technology than Iowa in their Feb. 22 caucuses. They had announced plans to use two apps: one to tabulate results, as Iowa did, and a second app preloaded onto tablets for voters to use at caucus sites to cast online votes during four days of early voting.