Why an App? We all know there's nothing in it but boilerplate.
Making sure that average Joe preloads a webapp and to make sure it will be configured a day later isn't easy.
Properly syncing from the web app - as discussed in these threads - adds complexity though.
Yes, a webapp will cost less. But if the vendor did this bad a job on an app they probably could do just as bad on a webapp.
Changing tech wouldn't have solved the problem for this vendor.
It makes me think of all that uproar for some iPad app for the TSA that just randomly showed a left or right arrow to send tell people which line to get in. Surely easy to code. But I bet it was months or years of interviews to determine that's all they actually needed.
And while an app not hard, a https website with login and post capability is on the _extremely simple_ territory. As long as precinct official are trustable, I don't see any reason why they have to use an app.
I guess for the wow factor? As the entire political process is essentially becoming.
