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The NeverEnding story: Bernie Sanders requests Iowa caucus recanvass after Pete Buttigieg declared winnerWith just one day to go until the New Hampshire primary, Bernie Sanders on Monday called for a partial recount of the Iowa caucuses after Pete Buttigieg was crowned the winner of the bungled first-in-the-nation presidential contest by a razor-thin margin.
In a formal request, Sanders asked Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price to initiate a so-called recanvass of 25 precincts and three satellite caucuses over concerns that Buttigieg was awarded too many State Delegate Equivalents (SDEs).
"It is a necessary part of making sure Iowans can trust the final results of the caucus, senior Sanders campaign adviser Jeff Weaver said in a statement.
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Here we go again. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, and of course Jeff Weaver of the "superdelegates kerfuffle" is smack in the middle of this. No surprise. Also not surprising is the cherry-picked precincts.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)The precincts specifically had discrepancies that could change the results, which is why they are chosen. If other precincts had discrepancies for other candidates that could favor them, they are also free to do a recanvass.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
comradebillyboy
(10,155 posts)perpetual victim, always suggesting the process wasn't fair and that he was cheated. His people on social media are pushing the rigged narrative constantly.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
unc70
(6,115 posts)Seems mostly incompetence and careless behavior. Generally don't see much malevolence beyond local officials not wanting to admit they screwed up.
I might make an exception wrt the IDP attorney who claims that there is no mechanism to correct the caucus work sheets. Some even assigned more delegates than they had the right to. How can that be allowed?
I suspect Iowa has always been error prone, only now we have more substantiating evidence.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
comradebillyboy
(10,155 posts)But the conspiracy mongering by Sanders partisans has been going non-stop for the last four years.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
stopdiggin
(11,317 posts)that says the Iowa caucus has been "cheating for the last 100 years?"
And this is, of course, why everybody "loves" to work with Bernie Sanders.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Indepatriot
(1,253 posts)If it all checks out, all good. If it doesn't, every Democrat should be alarmed. We either have transparency and accuracy, or we don't. There's no "almost" accurate.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided