The Iowa Democratic Party said this morning that it plans to release caucus results “as soon as possible today,” and that its ultimate goal is to ensure the “integrity and accuracy of the process”
The Iowa Democratic Party today said Tuesday morning that it plans to release caucus results "as soon as possible today," attributing the prior night’s mangling of the release of caucus data to a “coding issue” that has since been fixed.
The lack of timely results has infuriated presidential campaigns, scuttling an accurate narrative out of the first-in-the-nation caucus state and forcing candidates to move on to New Hampshire without clarity over who exactly won Iowa and in what order.Campaigns were apoplectic Monday, demanding answers from the party as time ticked away and they feared every moment lost would undermine the credibility and impact of the results.
The issues stemmed from a glitch with a reporting app, which precinct chairs complained was not functioning properly. The party on Tuesday said the app was reporting only partial data. “We have determined that this was due to a coding issue in the reporting system. This issue was identified and fixed,” the party said in a statement. “The application’s reporting issue did not impact the ability of precinct chairs to report data accurately.”
Staff then had to enter data manually. “This took longer than expected. As part of our investigation, we determined with certainty that the underlying data collected via the app was sound," the statement said.Sign UpBy signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google
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