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Democratic party leaders are officially disputing the results of the Iowa caucus. Voters there gave Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders 13 and 12 state delegates, respectively, according to results that show 99 percent of precincts counted as of Friday afternoon.
Problems with the caucus results surfaced Feb. 3, the day voters followed the usual caucus process to select their preferred Democratic candidates, when a smartphone app that the Iowa Democratic Party released to party officials experienced what’s been called a “coding error.”
That led to an unprecedented breakdown in reporting result, and Buttigieg prematurely declaring himself the caucus winner that night. Twitter sleuths later uncovered tweets showing the CEO of the parent company who owned the firm that developed the caucus app favored Buttigieg:
https://twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/status/1225073040100417541
Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, on Thursday tweeted a request to recanvass, or a review of the vote totals, in each Iowa county.
“Enough is enough. In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.”
Later he clarified that recanvassing would not be the same as recounting all votes cast in the caucus:
“A recanvass is a review of the worksheets from each caucus site to ensure accuracy. The IDP will continue to report results.”
Following the fracas, Sanders declared himself the caucus winner.
