Posted on 02/09/2020 12:47:48 PM PST by 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
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It’s just quality control.
and they say CHEATERS never win... unless it's with the blessings of the DNC!
Will they finish by November?
Legal record - no wonder Nancy din’t just change “correct” Trumps’ speech papers and tore them instead, that’s more acceptable i guess/ sarc
Knowingly creating, submitting, and refusing to correct error filled records is protecting integrity. Going through the legal process to correct those records is a crime. No wonder Democrats are going to the President’s rallies.
Lol. Hilarious.
This isn’t funny. They got caught doing fraud, and don’t seem to care.
Yep, this is so Machiavellian. They have just legitimized their illegality since math errors have the same net effect as outright fraud, because who could distinguish intent from someone that was just bad at math from someone that deliberately rigged the numbers? By this ruling the DNC has managed to rig an election so no one can ever change any fraud even if they are caught after the fact! Hey Bernie Bots, you feeling the burn yet after being screwed Ver2.0?
If the tally math paper in Iowa says 2+2=5, and there were only four people present, it seems that their rules would make it a crime to change the total to 4. And the Dems want to take over Health Care for all Americans. Yikes!
Or:...I found it before it was lost.
OMG That is so funny
In other words once the fix is in, it cant be changed.
This is what happens when your first motive is to control the outcome.
It is Libtard 101.
Why should they correct the errors? The chaos achieved the intended goal—it prevented Bernie from emerging from Iowa as a clear-cut winner.
Its strictly a party matter. No state money or oversight is involved.
The unaltered sheets are likely evidence in a civil suit. These are smart lawyers, after all.
Apparently NYT is now in competition with the Babylon Bee.
Still, they can keep the originals and correct copies to properly tally the results. There is no justification for hiding behind "legal documents" to prevent the state from calculating them properly from approved copies.
Unless they don't want to and would rather keep the chaos going.
-PJ
A crime? Since when did Dems give a crap about not breaking the “law”?
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