[lastpingstandin]

If there was some grand conspiracy here, wouldn't it make more sense to release a working front end, and do whatever evil machinations / rigging behind the scenes...

Intentionally releasing a broken app is an idiotic excuse for a conspiracy.

[asdff]

If there was some grand conspiracy there wouldn't even be a news story. We'd have read Iowas results in the early hours of the morning and moved on with our lives.