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Related: About this forumNEW: @BernieSanders campaign will ask the Iowa Democratic Party to look into "irregularities''
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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NEW: @BernieSanders campaign will ask the Iowa Democratic Party to look into "irregularities'' (Original Post)
Donkees
Feb 2020
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brooklynite
(96,882 posts)1. "We don't trust the numbers that say we won"?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)3. It's worth looking into when there's problems like this...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/iowa-caucus-map-of-precincts-where-the-data-appear-to-be-irregular.html


A common error, according to CNBCs analysis, is that in many precincts possibly more than 80 the number of votes counted in whats known as the final alignment was greater than the number in the first alignment.
That discrepancy is theoretically impossible under caucus rules, which are determined by the state party. Under those rules, voters gather in the first alignment to express support for their candidates. Supporters of candidates who do not reach a minimum viability threshold, generally 15%, must reallocate their support in the final alignment.
That discrepancy is theoretically impossible under caucus rules, which are determined by the state party. Under those rules, voters gather in the first alignment to express support for their candidates. Supporters of candidates who do not reach a minimum viability threshold, generally 15%, must reallocate their support in the final alignment.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)2. That's fair.
When the total final alignment vote count is higher than the first alignment, there's something wrong.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
OneMoreCupOfCoffee
(314 posts)4. What a shock!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
FloridaBlues
(4,659 posts)5. Good was hoping one of the candidates would do this
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
msongs
(73,239 posts)6. must be a shocker that his coronation has been postponed lol nt
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
gollygee
(22,336 posts)7. OMG it's just like last time
Why can't he just accept that everyone doesn't like him best and someone else might win?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
