Microsoft Puts Name on Line With Iowa Caucuses Tabulation
Pedestrians walk outside a Microsoft Corp. store in New York on Jan. 15, 2016.
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Iowa and Microsoft will have a lot at stake Monday evening as Republican and Democratic volunteers in roughly 1,700 precincts start plugging vote totals into their smartphones to deliver the first verdict of the 2016 presidential campaign.
It will be the first time mobile apps have been used in tabulating the results of the Iowa caucuses. While it may not offer much solace to those organizing the count, it could hardly go worse than it did four years ago.