Analysis: Iowa's colossal inability to count its Democratic caucus votes threatens to end its first-in-the-nation status for good.
The counting confusion became a kind of fog machine in which a few campaigns could hide what might have been poor performances in Iowa and sneak off to the next contests. Biden's campaign counsel wrote a letter to Iowa Democratic officials Monday night enumerating the"acute failures" of reporting systems and requesting an opportunity to contest the results before they are announced.
The 2016 presidential election had already exposed the vulnerabilities of state and candidate computer systems. Some Democrats said Monday night that given those serious cybersecurity concerns, the technological difficulties in Iowa are likely to doom its future standing. Chris Matthews, host of"Hardball," said on MSNBC Monday night that public confidence in elections would be improved if they were run in more similar fashion.But as each of the candidates gave speeches Monday night, thanking Iowans for their support and promising to campaign hard in New Hampshire, they chose not to hammer the state publicly for the party's failures.
"The diversity of candidates succeeding in Iowa, in addition to the state's important rural communities, suggests it's a good place to start our presidential election," Khanna said in a text message."Iowa should be viewed in conjunction with the other early states as launching the presidential cycle."
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