CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The cartoon heading this post was produced Monday afternoon, long ahead of the ongoing Iowa Democratic Caucus debacle which gave it even more credence.
At the time of this posting, the official results of Monday evenings caucus vote have still not been released and may not be even later today. In addition to failing to promptly produce any voting outcome, the Iowa Democratic Party has failed to provide adequate information and updates on the processing problems.
In one of their only statements on the issue, Iowa party officials cited inconsistencies/discrepancies in reporting of vote totals which they are trying verify to uphold the votes integrity. They denied the failure of the new vote processing app.
“This is simply a reporting issue, the app did not go down and this is not a hack or an intrusion,” said Mandy McClure, Iowa Democratic Party communications director.
According to more than one precinct chairman, the app did in fact fail, as had the backup phone-in system. In an interview with MSNBC, a precinct worker described how he had been on hold with the party for hours trying to report results after the app failed to work. Sen Elizabeth Warren’s campaign’s caucus hotline was reported to have been “blowing up” with reports of numerous vote processing problems being witnessed, including basic rules not being followed.
Even before Monday’s mess, their was ample and justified reasons why Iowa should not be the state to lead off the Democratic primary race and needs to change to standard primary voting from the flawed caucus system.
Although Iowa’s minority population has increased slightly to about 15%, voter turnout at the caucus was still 90% white. The state does not come close to representing the diversity of the Democratic party and the electorate it hopes to engage.
Monday, the nation saw why the caucus system has been abandoned by all but a few states, and after what happened in Iowa, they should be ended by all.
Caucuses are undemocratic, inefficient and lack credibility. Fewer voters can and do participate in caucuses compared to standard voting. Witnessing the Iowa caucus rooms and listening to caucus voters, factors that shouldn’t influence voting, and don’t in standard private primary voting, do in caucuses. The scene is more reminiscent of a school playground where kids are gathered together in different groups, complete with the prerequisite peer pressure.
The winner of the televised Iowa victory lap race was Sen. Amy Klobuchar. She was the first to take advantage of the results reporting void by addressing campaign workers at the 11:00 pm hour. She was quickly followed by Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, in that order. Although Sanders remarks ended up being televised before Warren’s. After thanking their campaign workers, all zeroed in on attacking President Trump.
Pete Buttigieg was the last of the major candidates to speak at 12:23 pm. He sounded like he was declaring victory at one point. Signs do indicate that Buttigieg and Sanders had better nights than Biden, but aside from the few delegates up for grabs, the processing problems will diminish any wins, momentum and raise permanent doubts about the result totals.
Besides the candidates who would likely have had to drop out had the results been reported normally, the biggest winners of the Iowa Democratic Primary are the two candidates who didn’t participate in it - Michael Bloomberg and President Donald Trump.
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