The Iowa Democratic Party admitted to another slip-up in the limited release of updated caucus results after a coding error assigned long-shot 2020 candidates Deval Patrick and Tom Steyer unusual levels of support.
“There will be a minor correction to the last batch of results and we will be pushing an update momentarily,” the Iowa state-based Democratic Party tweeted.
There will be a minor correction to the last batch of results and we will be pushing an update momentarily.
— Iowa Democrats (@iowademocrats) February 5, 2020
Iowa Democrats have been slowly putting out slivers of alignment and delegate allocation data after a problem with their mobile reporting application prevented a winner of the first-in-the-nation nominating contest being named Monday night. The party attributed the delay to wanting to administer “quality control” measures so it could verify the numbers against a paper trail of attendance and preference records.
Wednesday afternoon, the party announced it would release information from 85% of precincts but had to quickly revise the figures after the inclusion of Patrick, 63, and Steyer, 62, raised questions. Patrick in particular has been focusing his late efforts in the early voting states of New Hampshire and South Carolina.
it seems the new results have entered many likely Sanders results in Polk County as Deval Patrick or Steyer.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 5, 2020
The Iowa Democratic Party has been widely criticized for its handling of the 2020 caucuses. Almost two days after caucusgoers met in 1,600 precincts around the state, a clear winner is still not known. Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont are leading the once crowded field, according to partial results.
