Posted on 02/21/2020 2:53:28 PM PST by karpov
The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) announced Friday it will recount the caucus results of 23 precincts after the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg raised concerns over the tallies.
The move came after Sen. Sanders (I-Vt.) and Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., requested recounts of 10 precincts and 54 precincts, respectively. The IDP said it will review the results from all 10 of Sanders’ precincts and 14 of Buttigieg’s precincts, for a total of 23 precincts after an overlap.
The IDP said the recount, which will be conducted by appointed recount administrators under the supervision and direction of the IDP Recanvass/Recount Committee, will start Tuesday and is expected to last two days.
The recount will follow a recanvass of specific precincts that showed Sanders and Buttigieg within thousandths of a percentage point of one another in the state delegate equivalent count, the traditional metric by which a winner is declared in the state.
Buttigieg holds a narrow lead in that count but, due to caucus rules, leads Sanders by two delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Current tallies show Sanders won the most votes in the contest, and both contenders have declared victory in the state.
The Iowa caucuses were first thrust into chaos earlier this month after reporting inconsistencies and technical issues with a new app delayed the final results for several days and sparked widespread confusion as to who the victor was in the race. Troy Price, the chairman of the state Democratic Party, resigned last week in response to the fiasco.
The confirmation of the recount comes just one day before the Nevada caucuses, where Sanders is anticipated to perform well.
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Take your time!
Trump said in NV today he expects the same problems there, I’m wondering what he’s hearing about it.
DNC: “We need a different outcome.”
The RNC or some PAC ought to plaster the airwaves with ads ridiculing this. Make it mean. Make it stick. Republicans need to bypass the media. Trump does it at his rallies and on social media, but that is not enough. Rats need to be portrayed as too stupid to count and down right corrupt.
The fact that Harry Roid is suddenly appearing at debates and in the news, it’s obvious something is afoot
They’re going to have a somewhat more intense reaction if they think they’re going to try this in November.
Invest in rope.
Do they have photos of the caucees to compare against?
Yeah, he’s popped out like a bad case of herpes all of a sudden.
Can’t be good.
If they were counting votes Bernie would have clearly won on the night of the caucus, just as Trump did that night. They aren’t counting ‘votes’ they’re counting some delusional invented social justice concept instead. Don’t ban Iowa. Don’t ban caucuses. Ban Democrat pseudovotes.
Dear Iowa, no one cares anymore. It’s about time to plant corn.
If you’ve forgotten how just Google ‘Mike Bloomberg, farming techniques.’
To be fair they have to recount 23 precincts.
That’s over 2 dozen yah know.
/s
Osnt there a box of “spare ballots” in someone trunk that they mysteriously forgot about?
Dems love, love, love their re-re-recounts!
Who won Iowa? Ted Cruz!
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks.
Whenever you see the words “recount” and “democrat” in the same article, you know there’s skullduggery afoot.
It will be interesting to see who the DNC wants to win: which will have little or nothing to do with actual vote totals.
Wonder how long before they find thousands of caucus-goers hiding in a car trunk under a Biden banner.
Now let us take over health care, the energy industry and do away with the border. We proved we can do it in Florida 2000 and Iowa 2020. We’ve improved./heheheheheheh
And in other news, Gen. Francisco Franco is still dead.
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