Iowa Democratic Party Shifted Delegate From Sanders to Clinton on Caucus
Night
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/iowa_democratic_party_shifted_ca
ucus_delegate_from_sanders_20160205/
Posted on Feb 5, 2016
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Results in at least one precinct in the Iowa caucus Monday night were
unilaterally changed by the Democratic Party to favor Hillary Clinton,
leading to questions about the party's management of the first-in-the-nation
vote.
The Guardian reports:
In Grinnell Ward 1, the precinct where elite liberal arts college Grinnell
College is located, 19 delegates were awarded to Bernie Sanders and seven
were awarded to Hillary Clinton on caucus night. However, the Iowa
Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on
the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had
done so. Silva only discovered that this happened the next day, when
checking the precinct results in other parts of the county.
The shift of one delegate at a county convention level would not have
significantly affected the ultimate outcome of the caucus, but rather, it
raises questions about the Iowa Democratic party's management of caucus
night.
The Iowa Democratic party had long been plagued with organizational issues
around the caucus and failed to find hundreds of needed volunteers to
oversee individual precinct caucuses just over a week before Monday. The
result was a disorganized process that lent itself to chaos and conspiracy
theories. Although Andy McGuire, the chair of the Iowa Democratic party, is
a longtime Clinton supporter whose license plate once read HRC 2016, no one
familiar with the issue has accused the error of being a partisan process.
Instead, they have blamed simple mismanagement.
The party issued a statement early on Tuesday, detailing final delegate
numbers that had Clinton winning the caucuses. However, the statement came
shortly after party officials gave the impression to the Sanders campaign
that no statement with results would be issued at all that night.
Instead, they were told "they would reconvene at 9 am and let's talk". As of
now, Clinton has a lead of just over two-tenths of a percent over Sanders in
the overall apportionment of delegates in Iowa. This would equal an overall
share of 23 delegates to the national convention for Clinton, to Sanders'
21. The Iowa Democratic party has refused to audit the results.
Continue reading here.
-Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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Iowa Democratic Party Shifted Delegate From Sanders to Clinton on Caucus
Night
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/iowa_democratic_party_shifted_ca
ucus_delegate_from_sanders_20160205/
Posted on Feb 5, 2016
DonkeyHotey / CC BY 2.0
Results in at least one precinct in the Iowa caucus Monday night were
unilaterally changed by the Democratic Party to favor Hillary Clinton,
leading to questions about the party's management of the first-in-the-nation
vote.
The Guardian reports:
In Grinnell Ward 1, the precinct where elite liberal arts college Grinnell
College is located, 19 delegates were awarded to Bernie Sanders and seven
were awarded to Hillary Clinton on caucus night. However, the Iowa
Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on
the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had
done so. Silva only discovered that this happened the next day, when
checking the precinct results in other parts of the county.
The shift of one delegate at a county convention level would not have
significantly affected the ultimate outcome of the caucus, but rather, it
raises questions about the Iowa Democratic party's management of caucus
night.
The Iowa Democratic party had long been plagued with organizational issues
around the caucus and failed to find hundreds of needed volunteers to
oversee individual precinct caucuses just over a week before Monday. The
result was a disorganized process that lent itself to chaos and conspiracy
theories. Although Andy McGuire, the chair of the Iowa Democratic party, is
a longtime Clinton supporter whose license plate once read HRC 2016, no one
familiar with the issue has accused the error of being a partisan process.
Instead, they have blamed simple mismanagement.
The party issued a statement early on Tuesday, detailing final delegate
numbers that had Clinton winning the caucuses. However, the statement came
shortly after party officials gave the impression to the Sanders campaign
that no statement with results would be issued at all that night.
Instead, they were told "they would reconvene at 9 am and let's talk". As of
now, Clinton has a lead of just over two-tenths of a percent over Sanders in
the overall apportionment of delegates in Iowa. This would equal an overall
share of 23 delegates to the national convention for Clinton, to Sanders'
21. The Iowa Democratic party has refused to audit the results.
Continue reading here.
-Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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