Bernie Sanders' Campaign to Request Recount of Iowa Caucuses

[Uncle Joe]

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Sanders campaign senior adviser Jeff Weaver told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that the campaign has had a representative in contact with the Iowa Democratic Party throughout the recanvass process. "Based on what we understand to be the results, we intend to ask for a recount," he said.

The campaign expects that the already slim margin separating Sanders from Pete Buttigieg for the lead in Iowa will remain small enough that a recount would make a difference in the outcome.

The caucuses were roiled by significant issues in collecting and reporting data from individual precincts on caucus night. There were also errors in the complicated mathematical equations used to calculate the results in individual caucus sites that became evident as the party began to release caucus data throughout the week.

The AP reviewed the last reported results of the Iowa caucuses and decided that it remains unable to declare a winner based on the available information. The results, the AP says, may not be fully accurate and are still subject to potential revision.

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https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-02-18/bernie-sanders-campaign-to-request-recount-of-iowa-caucuses

[CalFione]

1. The recanvas is done. Bernie still came in second.

[still_one]

3. Exactly, time to move on

[msongs]

2. will bernie count every vote by hand and add them up without a calculator? nt

[Blue_true]

9. No. They are going to use pebbles. The one with the biggest pile of pebbles at the end wins. nt

[Indykatie]

4. Why is This Still a Thing? It Speaks to Bernie's Personality That He Can't Move On

[CalFione]

5. He needs the narrative that he won every state so far.

That's why his campaign wanted the "first count" numbers in Iowa so they could tout a "popular vote win", even though there's no such thing as the "popular vote" in a caucus.

[Garrett78]

6. Actually, it was agreed by all that there would be 3 results reported this year.

The first vote totals, the post-realignment vote totals and the SDEs. But it turned into a giant mess.

Caucuses need to go.

[Gravitycollapse]

8. An election is on the line. Anyone in his position would do this.

Has nothing to do with his personality.

[Moderateguy]

10. This has nothing to do with the election

The numbers are so close, the delegate count will not really change. At this point it is a waste of time and resources. He is only doing this so that his campaign can tout that he won the popular vote in Iowa. Hillary won the popular vote in the 2016 GE- and Sanders winning the popular vote in Iowa is going to do him just as much good as it did Hillary in the 2016 GE.

[Deero]

12. Absolutely.

It's about his ego.

[Gravitycollapse]

13. The delegate count absolutely could change and is teetering on the edge of doing so.

[Uncle Joe]

15. +!

[rzemanfl]

7. I am so tired. n/t

[BlueIdaho]

11. This is nuts...

This is all about ego - he will not significantly change the delegate count.

[herding cats]

14. M'kay.

I'd love to see a poll of swing state voters this is considered a positive with.

If I were stupid rich I'd pay for the polling.