Don't worry folks, Stephen Colbert's team fixed the Iowa caucus voting problems

Have you heard of "the latest technological breakthrough in voting?"
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Shannon Connellan
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Don't worry folks, Stephen Colbert's team fixed the Iowa caucus voting problems
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So, Iowa was a bit of a disaster, huh? And it was all down to technical difficulties.

After the app used for reporting caucus results in Iowa severely delayed vote-counting in the state's 2020 Democratic race on Tuesday, Stephen Colbert's Late Show team came up with the answer — a newfangled piece of tech, "the latest technological breakthrough in voting," called pāpr.

"Don't poke it, it's not a touchscreen, it doesn't work that way," the show's parody product ad proclaims. "No need to plug it in, it's always charged. Simply use the accompanying stylus, write down your vote, and that's it!"

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.


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