The Iowa caucuses were delayed last night after state party officials “found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results,” by rachsandl
Former candidate Julian Castro, who is now a surrogate for Elizabeth Warren, called the situation a “total mess.”News peg
: For the first time, the Democratic party will release three different results tallied during each stage of Iowa’s unusual caucusing process. The “first alignment” result will show caucus-goers’ preferences in the first round of voting . The “final alignment” is taken after candidates who don’t get at least 15% of the vote are eliminated and voters who supported those candidates shift their vote to “viable” contenders still in the running.
After applying a formula to the final alignment results, a “State Delegate Equivalent” will be calculated, which is the number of delegates each candidate will get at Iowa’s statewide convention. Whoever gets the highest State Delegate Equivalent wins Iowa, and that number is proportionally translated into how many of the state’s 41 national delegates each candidate gets. : The quirky method of caucusing in Iowa has renewed scrutiny of the entire system.
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