The Iowa Democratic Party says it is experiencing a delay in reporting results from the first-in-the nation caucuses because of unspecified “quality checks.”
Communications director Mandy McClure said in a statement Monday night that the delay is also the result of the party reporting three sets of data for the first time.
McClure said in a statement Monday night that the delay is also the result of the party reporting three sets of data for the first time and that the party had “found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results.”
She says the party is using photos of the results and a paper trail to “validate that all results match and ensure that we have confidence and accuracy in the numbers we report.”
She says: “The underlying data and paper trail is sound and will simply take time to further report the results.”
It was not immediately clear how long it would take the state party to produce results. Iowa holds the nation’s first presidential voting contest.
The party said the delay was a “reporting issue” and not because of a “hack or an intrusion.”
The Iowa Democratic Party had decided to report three sets of results: tallies for the “first alignment” and “final alignment,” as well as each candidate’s total of “state delegate equivalents.” Previously, only each candidate’s ultimate number of state convention delegates had been reported.
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