Iowa Democrats Won’t Correct Errors on Caucus Tally Sheets, Emails Show. The worksheets could not be changed even if they contained mistakes, according to the lawyer for the state party, because they were a legal record and altering them would be a crime.

New York Times ^ | February 9, 2020 | Trip Gabriel

[karpov]

DES MOINES — With the results of the Iowa caucuses still unclear after nearly a week, the state Democratic Party this weekend was furiously re-examining results from 95 precincts, about 5 percent of the total.

But when the party delivers its updated results, which it has promised to do on Monday, they may hardly reassure candidates and voters. Internal emails from Saturday night reveal that the party will not correct even blatant errors in the official handwritten tally sheets from individual precincts.

Those records, known as “caucus math worksheets,” could not be changed even if they contained mistakes, according to the lawyer for the Iowa Democratic Party, because they were a legal record and altering them would be a crime.

“The incorrect math on the Caucus Math Worksheets must not be changed to ensure the integrity of the process,” wrote the party lawyer, Shayla McCormally, according to an email sent by Troy Price, the chairman of the party, to its central committee members. The lawyer said correcting the math would introduce “personal opinion” into the official record of results.

Thanks to greater transparency in reporting the caucus results this year, outsiders were able to identify internal inconsistencies. The New York Times reported last week that some precincts, for example, had awarded more delegates to candidates than they were allotted.

In addition, caucus “captains” for individual candidates photographed the worksheets in their precincts and shared them internally with their campaigns. Those photographs provided further examples of problems. The most blatant were errors in adding up votes for candidates, which take place in two rounds, and miscalculations when using a formula that translates raw votes to “state delegate equivalents.”

But because the caucus chair and secretary of each precinct had certified the results on the worksheets

[karpov]

The Democrats can't count but want to take over health care and electricity production?

[metmom]

“The incorrect math on the Caucus Math Worksheets must not be changed to ensure the integrity of the process,” wrote the party lawyer, Shayla McCormally, according to an email sent by Troy Price, the chairman of the party, to its central committee members. The lawyer said correcting the math would introduce “personal opinion” into the official record of results.

Ah, the fruit of public education.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think the whole idea is for Democrats to destroy the concept of a caucus and go to some system that can be more quietly manipulated for future elections.

[Gahanna Bob]

I got an idea, prepare a new sheet based on the original. When all the new sheets are prepared, prepare a summary of differences that compares original results with the recalculations.

Would that be against the law. These people are insane.

[Grampa Dave]

The Democrats can't count but want to take over health care and electricity/energy production?

Dem primaries are becoming circular firing squads!

Just Stand Back, and let them destroy each other!

So! Sit back and enjoy the dems in their circular firing squads!

Thanks to Bonemaker for this great reality.

[Cold Heart]

Can’t change them because they were a legal record.
Can’t they just tear them in half?

[Clarence The One Eyed Lion]

It is by their fruit(s) you shall know them.

(Buttigieg)

[CheshireTheCat]

As Hillary would say, now that we are almost a week past the caucus, at this point what difference does it make anyway?

[bigbob]

Welp there's only one thing to do with them then...and they've got just the gal for the job:

[null and void]

The democrats want to set the precedent to make sure the election results this November can’t be changed even after massive fraud is exposed. After all the initial fraudulent results are legal documents!

[jjotto]

Math is the means by which White Privilege keeps people of color down!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Buttboy now holds the record as getting the most out of a 40,000 bribe to Shadow Inc than probably anyone else in political history. dems have spent millions of dollars countless times and not even got close the the payoff that he did.

[blackdog]

Translation = They are furiously altering the official tally sheets at record pace. These are democrats you know?

"Hey you damn woodchucks, quit chucking our wood" Its what woodchucks do.

[gibsonguy]

“because they were a legal record and altering them would be a crime”

As if that has ever stopped em

[Calvin Locke]

Incorrect math?

Lewis Carroll, a mathematician, would be appalled.

In “Alice in Wonderland”, there’s a chapter entitled ‘A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale’

In “Through the Looking-Glass”, Alice points out to Humpty Dumpty that he is looking at the arithmetic in her memorandum book upside down.

Then again, maybe the Dem’s math has to do with un-birthday presents for the greedy ones at the public trough.

[Political Junkie Too]

They are not a legal record, they are an illegal record. How can a record that was incorrectly filled out be considered a legal record?

Besides, isn't it not a legal record until it's been certified by the Secretary of State of Iowa?

-PJ

[Patriot Babe]

“altering them would be a crime.”

That never stopped a Denocrat

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

This is easily solved. They’re all socialists, so the right thing to do is to divide the total number of votes by the number of candidates and be done with it. It is not fair for one candidate to get more votes than another.

[Lurker]

“I think the whole idea is for Democrats to destroy the concept of a caucus and go to some system that can be more quietly manipulated for future elections.”

Ya don’t say...

L

[odawg]

Maybe a bank robber can try that one. “Hey, ownership of this money has changed hands. It legally mine now.”