Tuesday night was a disaster for the Democratic Party and democracy in general. Thanks to a bevy of technical challenges, we still don’t know the results of the Iowa caucuses. Most of the blame has centered around an app created by — and I am not making this up — Shadow Inc., which was supposed to be utilized in tabulating the results. Seriously, a script like last night’s would be thrown out of the Veep writer’s room for being too unrealistic.

Shadow’s app was also supposed to be used in the upcoming Nevada caucuses, but officials there have already ditched those plans after the Iowa chaos. But even as those in charge scramble to figure out how to get relatively simple vote-tabulating technology to work, many of the Democrats relying on the app want to put the government in charge of regulating or even running far more complicated technologies.