2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCount missing from 90 Iowa precints!
DES MOINES, Iowa The Iowa Democratic Party informed the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernard Sanders late Monday night that it has no results for 90 precincts across the state, which could account for as much as 5 percent of the total vote. And the party has asked the campaigns for help in getting a tally for those missing results.
We are, right now, calling all our precinct captains on precincts where we have knowledge of whats missing, to report what we think happened there, a visibly irate Robert Becker, Sanders state director told Roll Call.
Attempts to reach the Clinton campaign early Tuesday were unsuccessful.
http://atr.rollcall.com/sanders-campaign-party-lost-5-percent-of-iowa-vote/
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)the Des Moines register about this:
"The Sanders campaign was calling temporary caucus chairs to track down results as well as checking with campaign volunteers early Tuesday.
A representative of Clinton's campaign said early Tuesday that the campaign was not involved in tracking down temporary caucus chairs."
Lol.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/02/02/some-democratic-precinct-results-unaccounted/79682184/
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)Gothmog
(145,558 posts)These claims are wrong http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/267845-iowa-dems-push-back-on-sanders-claim-of-lost-votes
A Sanders aide told The Hill that the party did not send impartial staffers to 90 caucus sites and is now reaching out to candidates for help reporting the data. That would mean that precinct captains from the rival campaigns will have to self-report totals from the caucus, which could lead to arguments over a swath of precincts could more than make up the margin between the two candidates.
But an Iowa Democratic Party official pushed back against the claims, telling The Hill that "the reports of precincts without chairs are inaccurate."
"We have reached out to the campaigns for help in contacting the chairs for our outstanding precincts," the official said in a statement.
"We are not taking results from the campaigns. We are taking them from the chairs who are in these precincts."
w4rma
(31,700 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)6 to 7 coin flips