Buttigieg campaign alleges irregularities in Nevada caucuses vote

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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/pete-buttigieg-campaign-irregularities-nevada-caucuses/index.html

Washington (CNN) Pete Buttigieg's campaign sent a letter to the Nevada State Democratic Party on Sunday, alleging that there are "material irregularities pertaining to the process of integrating early votes into the in-person precinct caucus results" and asking the party to take three concrete steps to address the purported issues.

The letter asked the state party to "release early vote and in-person vote totals by precinct​," "correct any outstanding second alignment errors identified by presidential campaigns, including ours" and "explain anomalies in the data." The allegations make Buttigieg's campaign the first to question the Nevada results, which -- with 50% of precincts reporting -- found Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with a significant lead, former Vice President Joe Biden at 19% and Buttigieg at 15%. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren trailed Buttigieg at 10%.

The claims from the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, follow the chaos surrounding the Iowa caucuses weeks earlier. That chaos delayed reporting results from the first-in-the-nation state and undercut the legitimacy of the caucus process. Nevada's process did not experience the same disorder that impacted the Iowa caucuses, but the results have taken hours to report, with thousands still left unreported nearly 24 hours after the caucuses began.

Molly Forgey, communications director for the Nevada State Democratic Party, responded to the letter in a statement to CNN on Sunday.

"We laid out our early vote and Caucus Day processes step by step and we communicated these processes to all campaigns. We are continuing to verify and to report results," Forgey said. "We never indicated we would release a separate breakdown of early vote and in-person attendees by precinct and will not change our reporting process now. As laid out in our recount guidance, there is a formal method for requesting a challenge of results."

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[JFlash]

1. All this over 2nd place, and like 1 delegate?

Move on to SC Pete, and start working on black voters.

[Celerity]

2. He is right on the border of 15%, a little over, so it is the difference between some delegates

and no delegates. He himself doesn't have to be in NV to contest this. He already left.

[Renew Deal]

8. Only around half of the delegates have been allocated

So it adds up to more than that for everyone.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. We should just let the russians have what they want? Or maybe when there are

irregularities, we should investigate them and solve problems, generate confidence in our systems and the sanctity of our votes.

[Me.]

3. Why Are We Still Waiting For A Full Accounting?

What's the hold up?

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4. I have no idea. ALL caucuses need to END. They are exclusionary and anti-democratic and

are staggeringly poorly run. It hurts our image as well, makes us look incompetent.

Ending them all is the best path forward.

[PADemD]

5. Maybe they are still counting the 70,000+ mail-in ballots.

Watched the NV caucuses online. They seemed much better organized than in 2016 and the Iowa caucus, which used the Shadow APP in which Pete invested.

[Celerity]

9. There you go repeating an outright lie. Pete did NOT invest in that app, he simply use the vendor

for other logistical services involving text messaging. This lie that he helped developed the app or funded it was bullshit spun up by the usual suspects on the radical left who constantly smear and lie about most all of the other candidates. It came from the same environs who lied and spread disinfo (just one example) that Zuckerberg was running Buttigiegs campaign all because a long ago ex FB employee and a woman who never worked at FB asked Zuckerberg and his wife to send over their CV's to his campaign because they (along with hundreds if not thousands) want to work for it.

Stop spreading outright lies!!

you should really delete your post


Pete Buttigieg campaign did not pay for Iowa Caucus app

https://apnews.com/afs:Content:8464590602

CLAIM: Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign funded the creation of the app that was used to tally votes during the Iowa Caucus.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Buttigieg’s campaign paid the company that created the app that failed during the Iowa Caucus for different technology services.

THE FACTS: Social media posts are claiming that Buttigieg’s campaign either funded or created the app used during the Iowa Caucus that was the cause of major delay in voting results.

Buttigieg’s campaign paid Shadow Inc., the company behind the Iowa Caucus app, $42,500 in July for text messaging software, campaign finance records show. The software was not related to that developed for the Iowa Caucus.

In addition, the Buttigieg campaign did not help develop the app used in Iowa, a campaign spokesman confirmed Tuesday to the AP.

Other candidates and Democratic parties, including Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and the Texas Democratic Party have also contracted with Shadow Inc. in the past for services similar to those purchased by the Buttigieg campaign, federal campaign finance data shows.

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[Me.]

10. THat Doesn't Account For The Lack Of Precinct Reporting

[Baclava]

6. Here we go again! They gonna drag this out for a week too?

[Renew Deal]

7. I still don't understand how only 60% is reported

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12. Has Pete asked for a recount yet?