THIS JUST IN: NYT: Sanders Campaign Criticizes State Party for Failing to Collect Votes

[BigBearJohn]

Campaign aides for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Monday night that the Democratic Party did not collect the results of 90 Iowa precincts, which is about 5 percent of all votes cast in the state, because the party had failed to properly staff the precincts.

Rania Batrice, a spokeswoman for the campaign based in Iowa, said that the party reached out to the campaigns of Mr. Sanders and Hillary Clinton and asked them to help tally the results. “It’s just offensive that they dropped the ball like this,” she said. “It’s ridiculous.”

Monday night it was unclear how the issue would be resolved.

Ms. Batrice said the party was supposed to properly staff all precincts with caucus chairs but that some of those people responsible for calculating the results did not shown up.

The Democratic Party pushed back against reports that the caucus sites were not staffed appropriately.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/02/sanders-campaign-criticizes-state-party-for-failing-to-collect-votes/?_r=0

[valerief]

1. Rachel followed up with that story a half hour later and said it wasn't true. nt

[hollysmom]

3. actually, I don't think she said it was not true

but rather that the Iowa democratic party said it was not true, but there is no denial that they asked for help, they just lost their chair people assigned there and wanted the candidate volunteers to look for them. Which is even weirder

[valerief]

5. I was typing this as she said it: "Rachel says reports of precincts without chairs is inaccurate.

Right now they are taking results from chairs. More to come."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511117498

[Happenstance24]

2. MSNBC is on repeat mode til morning. -nt

[kristopher]

4. Do Andrea Mitchell's comment about a lawsuit exhibit foreknowledge?

Did she know this was the situation this morning?

Why is Andrea Mitchell predicting an Iowa Democratic legal challenge?


http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/01/msnbcs-mitchell-predicts-democratic-legal-challenge-over-iowa-results-video/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511111069

[BigBearJohn]

6. Check out this link

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/43sxg7/90_precincts_not_correctly_staffed_polls_are_now/