the DNC should declare the iowas caucus results invalid

[rdking647]

either hold another primary or else dont allow the results to count.
make the announcment now,before any results are released

[Sherman A1]

1. Agreed

[jalan48]

2. Not including Iowa in the final tally would definitely benefit those who did poorly.

[MontanaMama]

3. Can they do that?

It sounds good to me...I don’t think anyone trusts the results of the mess made last night.

[rdking647]

6. they can in theory do anything they want

[phleshdef]

4. I posted the same thing last night and was trashed for it.

None of this was fair or good for ANY of the candidates.

[avlbeerfan]

5. yep

Sounds good at this point.

[DonaldsRump]

7. Before doing that

it might help if we understood the exact problem. Right now, the main issue appears that there was the app issue, which could be dealt with by paper certifications. That's just a matter of time.

The other thing that apparently CNN was reporting earlier was that several precincts messed up how the non-viables could move after the first round. If that's true, perhaps the Caucus results do need to be invalidated if this was more than a few.

Wait and see. If robust results are available today, announce during the SOTU.

[dalton99a]

8. Make everyone go back to Iowa for Iowa Caucus Rev. 2

"It works, we promise"

[IronLionZion]

9. They could declare Putin the winner

since it was a bit irritating to see news media announce that Trump had won the GOP caucus. Cue the SNL church lady: Well, isn't that special....

[PatSeg]

10. Time to start holding primaries

[Golden Raisin]

16. Long past time.

[David__77]

11. I think that more information would be helpful.

Is there something impinging on the integrity of the votes themselves? Is there good documentation and chain of custody? Were the agreed upon rules followed? I don't know about that.

[Kurt V.]

12. they'll be able to figure it out. the real problem is our need to know immediately.

[DanTex]

13. Maybe, but it doesn't really matter.

Iowa is always about momentum, not delegates. When the results come out, in terms of national delegates, it's going to be a few here and there.

Maybe they should do it again, but that requires funding and planning. But even if they do, it doesn't undo the damage to the party of having this happen. We don't get an Obama moment like in 2008. The delegates from Iowa didn't make any difference then. But the speech he gave and the momentum he got made people believe he could win for the first time, and ultimately changed the course of history. That could have happened for one or two candidates here. But it didn't.

[Amishman]

14. Probably for the best, especially if the reports of improper procedure are true

We have twofold issues

CNN was reporting that multiple sites were doing the realignment process improperly during the caucus itself (can't find a article on this however)

Data completeness and integrity concerns

[RDANGELO]

15. They should at least wait until results come out and see

how much confidence they have in them. If they have all of the documentation they should be able to get accurate results. It would be no different than a paper ballot election.

[getagrip_already]

17. How about not releasing ANY results until Super Tuesday, then release them all...

The first 2 states are meaningless anyway. Just lump the results together.

[Politicub]

18. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Nothing is going to erase the Iowa debacle and how utterly unorganized and amateur it appears to be.

It’s a stain on the primary process now. You can’t spend more than a year building up so much interest in Iowa and emotion about the outcome, and then expect an easy fix to move on without it dominating the news cycle.

[LongtimeAZDem]

19. Whether they declare it so or not, it already is