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Both state parties used apps developed by Microsoft for the 2016 caucus. The Sanders campaign complained vociferously about it and the move away from MS was one

• dragonwriter 7y ago
  While Sanders raised complaints about both the opaque results and Microsoft's role, other candidates also raised complaints about the opaque results; the move to allay all those complaints wasn't “move away from Microsoft” (a move to a historically Clinton linked and currently Buttigeig linked firm wouldn't allay Sanders bias complaints, anyway, on it own), but the transparency requirements imposed by the DNC that required. Now, this necessitated a new app, since the Microsoft one provided previously didn't address the new reporting requirements. But it was the reporting requirements, not moving from MS to a firm that had even clearer reason to suspect anti-Sanders bias, that was intended to negate the complaints of Sanders and other candidates about the 2016 cycle.