Citing a 'coding error' and 'irregularities' discovered after a voting app malfunctioned during Monday's Iowa caucuses, the Iowa Democratic Party released 62 percent of the results Tuesday but offered no set time for the release of the rest of the information.
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price told reporters Tuesday that the delay in reporting full statewide results from the Iowa Democratic caucus that was held on Monday was because of"irregularities."
"Last night," Price said,"we were faced with multiple reporting challenges and decided out of an abundance of caution to protect the integrity of the Iowa caucuses and their results by taking the necessary steps to review and confirm the data. A thorough, transparent and independent examination of what occurred yesterday will follow."
"I will say that we have worked with cybersecurity experts, nationally renowned cybersecurity experts, to test this app and to do testing and security checks on this app," Price said."We took the steps we felt was necessary but we found a coding error last night once we discovered some irregularities as the results started to come in."reached out to the Iowa Democratic Party for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren came in third place, garnering 18.3 percent of the vote so far and four delegates.
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