Democratic National Committee officials on Friday recommended that Iowa and Neva...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - Democratic National Committee officials on Friday recommended that Iowa and Nevada scrap plans to let voters participate in their early caucuses by phone because of security concerns.
Each U.S. state party hosts its own nominating contest ahead of the presidential election. Iowa’s caucus is the first in the nation, on Feb. 3, and Nevada’s follows later that month. Party officials raised concerns about the potential for hacking. On Friday, DNC Chair Tom Perez and other officials said no telephone system for holding a caucus “meets our standard of security and reliability given the scale needed for the Iowa and Nevada caucuses and the current cyber-security climate.”
The Iowa Democratic Party said in a statement that it would seek alternatives to increase access to the caucus. But blocking the states’ measures five months ahead of the first caucus leaves Iowa and Nevada little time to deliver an alternative.
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