Iowans claim instances when Sanders was shorted delegates [View all]
Source: Des Moines Register
Keane Schwarz is certain he knows the outcome of the vote in his precinct: He was the lone caucusgoer in Woodbury County No. 43.
But the Iowa Democratic Party's final results state that Hillary Clinton won one county delegate and Bernie Sanders received zero.
"I voted for Bernie," Schwarz, 36, of Oto, told The Des Moines Register. “It was really suspicious … I’m actually pretty irate about it.”... complaints that Iowa Democrats have shared with the Register about discrepancies in caucus results appear to be valid... Party officials on Friday night were still reviewing reports and correcting errors and hadn’t yet shared candidates' updated totals of state delegate equivalents, which determine the winner of the caucuses.... It also doesn't help the optics that the state party chairwoman drove around for years in a car with “HRC2016” license plates.
Several caucusgoers told the Register they thought Sanders had been shorted county delegates, including in Knoxville No. 3.... A total of 110 people were present for the final vote, and the count was 58 people for Sanders and 52 people for Clinton — which amounted to five county delegates for Sanders and four for Clinton, said Lonnie McCombs, a 59-year-old Knoxville Democrat who is retired from careers in the military and in manufacturing... But when the Knoxville Journal Express newspaper posted the Democratic Party’s official results, it showed Knoxville No. 3 results as Clinton with five county delegates and Sanders with four.... Steve Eck, who was Clinton’s precinct captain for Knoxville No. 3, confirmed: “Somebody transposed those numbers.”... Elsewhere, ... in Cedar Rapids No. 9, ... the precinct’s four delegates split evenly between Sanders and Clinton, who won by just one person's vote.... 131 people signed in at the beginning of the caucus but two separate head counts showed that 136 people voted.... “Who knows if these people were even registered to vote in our district.”
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