They trashed the place....
on to New Hampshire!!!
Posted on 02/04/2020 12:59:41 PM PST by karpov
DES MOINES — The top Democratic presidential candidates sparred on Tuesday with leaders of the Iowa Democratic Party, and at times with one another, in a strenuous effort to shape the terms and timing of the release of results from the presidential caucuses here.
Fault lines that emerged between the campaigns on Monday night quickly deepened on Tuesday, as several campaigns pressed the state party for a speedy and full release of the results and representatives of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. continued to criticize the legitimacy of the process.
The state party said in a midday statement that it would begin to announce partial results late in the afternoon, frustrating campaigns that feared a partial release of data would offer a misleading picture of the outcome and throw the presidential race into further disarray. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont did not wait for Iowa officials; citing his campaign’s internal data, he all but declared victory as he waited to fly to New Hampshire.
Troy Price, the state party chairman at the center of the maelstrom, declined to lay out a timeline for completing the tabulation and releasing the results.
On a midday conference call and in other private conversations with Iowa party leaders, representatives for Mr. Sanders, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., and Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota urged local officials to provide the most complete set of results possible, and several campaign emissaries pushed for access to the paper trail that the party was using to verify returns from the caucuses.
Mr. Biden’s campaign took a more combative approach, repeatedly questioning — in public and private — the integrity of the caucuses and objecting to the party’s plans for releasing the results.
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This process was so simple. Delegate go to a corner of a big room with their candidates name. Then they count the number of people standing there. They could take a picture of the people standing there. Its nearly impossible to accidently screw up.
The mother of all vote counting snafus.
Historically the only shenanigans happened at the state convention level (far from any prying eyes).
I guess the DNC was so panicked about Bernie’s positive momentum and Biden’s negative momentum they couldn’t wait and rig the results later.
They trashed the place....
on to New Hampshire!!!
They who count the votes decide. Can’t wait to hear what the IA Democrat people tell us. Stay tuned.
Can’t they just set up a simple spreadsheet and manually key in the data? Why is the non functional app seemingly paralyzing everything?
>>>> Democratic Infighting Escalates
There won’t be a clear cut winner, even till the convention.
So party elders/superdelegates will fix it in Milwaukee. A not-very-suspenseful pre-written novel.
I’ve worked with IPhone apps.
Apparently quality assurance testing wasn’t done on it.
keep in mind these are the same people that screwed up which bathroom to use...
Democrat HQ in Des Moines. We’ll either have more info - or not.
Democrats are hopelessly messed up.
And they want to take on Trump in the fall. Go figure.
Bloomberg will overtake Sanders, whose appeal is very limited, and he looks ridiculous behind a podium; surprised that Biden flamed out so quick...
LoL the popcorn in all the memes just get bigger and bigger!
The Battle of the Billionaires.
Betcha it was Android! Google and all that.
‘And they want to take on Trump in the fall. Go figure.’
they’re not taking on Trump; their voters are...and we have no way of gauging that at this point...
30 minutes to go before first results post.
This was no snafu. This was planned and deliberately done.
Remember it was Hillary Clinton’s organization that developed the app to tabulate these caucus results.
Somewhere in a New York penthouse - Her Thighness is sipping her (OK guzzling her) vodka tonics and laughing eerily.
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