Shawn Sebastian, a precinct secretary in Iowa, was on hold for over an hour, but was too busy talking to CNN to respond when he finally got someone on the line, so they hung up on him. Thus, they began calling in the results on a telephone hotline.
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2) To ease the burden of logging all this information from more than 1,600 precincts, the party developed an app for reporting results - which many precinct chairs could not figure out how to use. In the past, the party was only on the hook for that last metric, which is much easier to tabulate. 1) This year, for the first time ever, the Iowa Democratic Party was required to report three distinct sets of results - the vote tally on “first alignment,” the vote tally on “final alignment” (when backers of candidates who lack 15% support redistribute their votes to higher-polling candidates), and the final delegate tally. Officials currently say that they hope to have the numbers by “some time Tuesday.” The ostensible reasons for this are twofold. And yet, few of Iowa’s bitterest critics ever dreamed it would subject the country to something like this.Īs of this writing, we are one hour into Tuesday morning and only a small fraction of Iowa precincts have reported their results. There is no reason why the most politically-engaged and/or time-rich citizens of America’s 31st most populous state should have the power to veto presidential candidates before anyone else in the country has a say. Iowa’s eccentric, endearing - and wildly anti-democratic - nominating contest has always been an indefensible institution. The “first-in-the-nation” Iowa caucuses died Monday night after a protracted battle with advanced-stage omnishambles. This is what a failed democracy looks like.
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