The chair of the Iowa Democratic Party is calling for an independent investigation of what went wrong with the state's caucuses
The chair of the Iowa Democratic Party is calling for an independent investigation into what went wrong with the state's caucuses.
The state party also put out a statement on Friday, noting that it had reached 100 percent of precincts reporting in on Thursday evening. “However, due to delays in reporting and some inconsistencies in data, the IDP continues to be fully committed to ensuring the data reported matches the precinct records of result,” the unsigned statement read.
In the current results reported by the state party, Pete Buttigieg has a very narrow lead over Bernie Sanders in state delegate equivalents, the metric most media outlets will use to determine a winner.the close margin and “evidence the party has not accurately tabulated some of its results, including those released late Thursday that the party reported as complete."
"We're not going to ask for a recanvass of the whole state, that we're certainly not going to do," Sanders said in anon Friday, Sanders, citing media reports, highlighted some "some pretty apparent irregularities" in some precinct results and said "I think we will ask the Iowa Democratic Party to take a look at those precincts."
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