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ACRONYM has also taken down from its website a blog post penned by Niemira at the time of Shadow's launching, which describes Shadow Inc. as a \"technology company that will exist under the ACRONYM umbrella.\" Niemira further details, \"As part of Shadow’s technology suite, ACRONYM will continue to license Groundbase technologies to campaigns and organizations across the progressive movement.\" It's unclear when exactly the page was taken down.

The Democratic Party had previously declined to release information about its vendors for the early caucuses and the only trace of Shadow's involvement in the Hawkeye State until now has been the party committee's payments to the company totaling $63,183 in November and December for \"website development,\" according to a campaign finance disclosure report.

The House Administration Committee's ranking member Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., wrote in a statement on Tuesday that the Iowa Democratic Party didn't receive any technical assistance available from the Department of Homeland Security to inspect the app before its use.

\"Yesterday, we saw a breakdown of the Iowa Democratic Party's technology that could have been easily preventable,\" Davis wrote. \"Not only are there no regulations around this new election technology, but they did not take advantage of the resources of the Department of Homeland Security to check the security and functionality of this new app.\"

Election security experts told ABC News that while a paper trail should eventually be able to produce accurate results, Monday night's debacle adds to existing concerns over the country’s election system.

\"I do think it's a warning to those running our primaries and general election that they must be prepared for system-wide failure,\" Lawrence Nordern, director of the Election Reform Program at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice told ABC News.

“It undermines people's trust because people expect that election officials are going to be able to produce winners and do so in a transparent way,\" professor Richard Hansen, an election law scholar at the University of California, Irvine told ABC News. \"They have lost both the transparency and the finality at this point. And it's very worrisome.\"

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Last year, the Democratic National Committee rejected Iowa and Nevada's plans to hold \"virtual\" caucuses citing security concerns, causing the two state parties to scramble together revised plans just months ahead of the early primaries. Security and technological concerns have continued to plague the state parties, but the Democratic Party said it had thoroughly vetted its technology.

The Nevada Democratic Party, which is slated to hold its Democratic caucuses later this month on Feb. 22, had also paid Shadow Inc. $58,000 for \"technology services\" in August last year, an FEC record shows.

The state’s Democratic Party announced on Tuesday morning that it \"will not be employing the same app or vendor used in the Iowa caucus.\" It's unclear if the decision to not use the same vendor was made before Monday's results.

FEC records show that a number of other campaigns and state committees have also paid the firm, including $42,500 from the campaign of former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg in July for \"software rights and subscriptions,\" FEC records show. The Buttigieg campaign told ABC News the payment was for the vendor's texting services.

The presidential campaigns of former Vice President Joe Biden and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as state Democratic Party committees in Wisconsin and Texas, hired Shadow for its \"fundraising consulting,\" \"text messages\" and \"software\" services earlier last year.

Texas Democratic Party spokesperson Abhi Rahman told ABC News that the party committee only used Shadow for its texting contracts, not for app development or website services.

Because ACRONYM's nonprofit status doesn't require donor disclosure, much of its source of funding is unknown to the public.

But FEC records show that ACRONYM's super PAC, PACRONYM, designed to help Democrats in 2020, is bankrolled by a host of liberal megadonors.

Last year, under the leadership of McGowan, who was also previously the director of strategy with Priorities USA, one of the largest Democratic-aligned outside groups, PACRONYM raised more than $7 million, receiving a series of eight-figure checks from wealthy supporters including financier Seth Klarman and Donald Sussman, as well as $500,000 from Steven Spielberg.

The Iowa Democratic Party has began releasing its caucus results late Tuesday afternoon. With 62% of precincts reporting, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg had 27% of the vote and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had 25%, according to the Iowa Democratic Party. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren had 18%, former Vice President Joe Biden had 16% and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar had 13% of the vote.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote in a statement Tuesday afternoon that \"the continuing chaos in Iowa is illustrative of our overall failure to take sufficient steps to protect the integrity of our election systems.\"

\"We need to look holistically at protecting the security, integrity, and resiliency of election systems – from registration systems, to e-poll books, voting machines, tabulation machines, and election night reporting systems,\" Warner wrote.

ABC News' Matthew Vann, Fergall Gallagher, Lucien Bruggeman and Ali Dukakis contributed to this report.

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