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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“correcting the math would introduce “personal opinion””
right, because 2 + 2 = 4 is always just a “personal opinion”, at least it apparently is for Iowan Democrats(or would that be true for ALL Democrats?) ...
Already Iowa Republicans are speaking out against Dems forcing Iowa taxpayers to pay for preventing Dems from cheating each other. Nobody’s got that much money.
Send in Nanzi. She’s great at tear things to shreds.
Common Core Math.
Revealing corruption is Proof of Corruption, guilty and immoral. Trust the Party. They Love You and will govern You with light chains and kind words.
Or mirror the system and then modify the clone to correct the math “errors”...
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