From Eugen (@gargron) the person who leads the development team for Mastodon (It's his baby...) "The Iowa voting app, by the sounds of it, wasn't even using https https://www.propublica.org/article/the-iowa-caucuses-app-had-another-problem...; The article doesn't state it explicitly but that's exactly what it sounds like" Gargron @ Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/103609174395243622