New rules around results reporting have exposed a multitude of errors in precinct tallies and recordings. The Democratic Party insisted on implementing new rules for the caucuses Iowa and Nevada are the only early states that still have them , which may not have been translated well to the caucus-goers or captains. Untangling the inconsistencies took the party days before fully reporting the results. New Hampshire will hold its first-in-the-nation primary, without any of the wonky caucus mechanics, on Tuesday.
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Comments 0. Top Stories. Southwest employee hospitalized after being punched by passenger: Police 38 minutes ago. ABC News Live. But even the basics of downloading and using the app was a reportedly tedious and confusing process. Ultimately, on caucus day itself, there were issues downloading and logging into the app.
Out of 1, precincts, only people logged into the live version of the app and successfully submitted results using the technology, according to Iowa Democratic officials, or about a quarter of precinct chairs. The rest resorted to calling — waiting on hold for hours — or even texting in their results.
Adcock, along with most Iowans interviewed for this article, expressed frustration with the focus of the coverage in the reporting after the caucuses were over.
People helped each other. And that's unfair; Tom Perez should be ashamed of himself. We're all in this together. We all succeed together. And when we fall, we fall together, and we fell short, and I'm here to say, I apologize for that. The Iowa state auditor, Rob Sand, was in the room taking calls where precinct chairs ultimately chose to call in their results. This is about whether or not we want to have conversations in our neighborhoods about how our democracy is supposed to work.
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