Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTHIS JUST IN: NYT: Sanders Campaign Criticizes State Party for Failing to Collect Votes
Campaign aides for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Monday night that the Democratic Party did not collect the results of 90 Iowa precincts, which is about 5 percent of all votes cast in the state, because the party had failed to properly staff the precincts.
Rania Batrice, a spokeswoman for the campaign based in Iowa, said that the party reached out to the campaigns of Mr. Sanders and Hillary Clinton and asked them to help tally the results. Its just offensive that they dropped the ball like this, she said. Its ridiculous.
Monday night it was unclear how the issue would be resolved.
Ms. Batrice said the party was supposed to properly staff all precincts with caucus chairs but that some of those people responsible for calculating the results did not shown up.
The Democratic Party pushed back against reports that the caucus sites were not staffed appropriately.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/02/sanders-campaign-criticizes-state-party-for-failing-to-collect-votes/?_r=0
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
6 replies, 1333 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (9)
ReplyReply to this post
6 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
THIS JUST IN: NYT: Sanders Campaign Criticizes State Party for Failing to Collect Votes (Original Post)
BigBearJohn
Feb 2016
OP
Rachel followed up with that story a half hour later and said it wasn't true. nt
valerief
Feb 2016
#1
valerief
(53,235 posts)1. Rachel followed up with that story a half hour later and said it wasn't true. nt
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)3. actually, I don't think she said it was not true
but rather that the Iowa democratic party said it was not true, but there is no denial that they asked for help, they just lost their chair people assigned there and wanted the candidate volunteers to look for them. Which is even weirder
valerief
(53,235 posts)5. I was typing this as she said it: "Rachel says reports of precincts without chairs is inaccurate.
Right now they are taking results from chairs. More to come."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511117498
Happenstance24
(193 posts)2. MSNBC is on repeat mode til morning. -nt
kristopher
(29,798 posts)4. Do Andrea Mitchell's comment about a lawsuit exhibit foreknowledge?
Did she know this was the situation this morning?
Why is Andrea Mitchell predicting an Iowa Democratic legal challenge?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/01/msnbcs-mitchell-predicts-democratic-legal-challenge-over-iowa-results-video/
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/01/msnbcs-mitchell-predicts-democratic-legal-challenge-over-iowa-results-video/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511111069
BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)6. Check out this link