Posted on 02/06/2020 6:56:11 AM PST by karpov
A hotline that was used by Iowa precinct chairs to report Democratic caucus results was reportedly flooded with calls on Monday from President Trump supporters after the number was posted online, elongating the delays in the vote tallying process, sources told Bloomberg.
Sources told the news outlet that Ken Sagar, a state Democratic central committee member, told other party officials on a Wednesday conference call that a high volume of people called in and expressed support for the president.
The hotline number was posted online after an app used by the party to count precinct votes, largely malfunctioned, forcing the precinct chairs to try to use the hotline to report results.
The results have been delayed for days following the app malfunction. According to the report, after the issues with the app developed, a number of precinct chairs turned to the hotline to try and report results, but were met with hours of hold time and often just gave up.
The chaos has been a black eye for Democrats at the beginning of the nominating process as the New Hampshire primary is just days away and there are still no final results from the Hawkeye State.
As of Thursday morning, the party was still counting votes, with 96 percent of the votes counted.
Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are locked in a virtual tie.
Troy Price, the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, reportedly didn't explicitly mention Trump supporters on the conference call but did allude to interference.
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1) I REALLY doubt that this happened.
2) Too bad, because it is a great idea!
Sure , it ‘s all the GOP fault..er...Russians...uh...who is next...
All Trump’s fault!
Agree on both accounts!
Whatever. Sounds as good as any other “reason”.
1) I REALLY doubt that this happened.
2) Too bad, because it is a great idea!
Hmmm... Looking for the qualifier: “without evidence.”
This is BS.
Total BS.
Trying to cover for their election manipulation.
They are professional liars.
Surprised they did not blame the Russians
I figured that the Rats had this fix all worked out before the cukus so am amazed that it is taking so long to come up with the covering lies.
The Dims are slacking. It took 2.5 days to come up with this laughable reason that it was Trump’s fault.
yup
Are they saying that they only had one phone number to call in? Maybe only one person answering the phone?
Phoney baloney.
Trump supporters? Baloney.
They were Russians. :D
They are just accusing us of doing what whey would/will do given the same circumstances.
“We had a hard time moving Sanders votes over to Buttigieg, err, that is... it’s Trump’s fault!”
The Hill regurgitated this BS without verifying the truth of this latest excuse by incompetent Democrats. Typical of the left leaning Hill.
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