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Associated Press Unable To Declare Winner Of Iowa Caucuses

Feb 6, 2020, 5:37 PM

DES MOINES, IOWA - FEBRUARY 04:  An exterior view of the Iowa Democratic Party headquarters is seen...

DES MOINES, IOWA - FEBRUARY 04: An exterior view of the Iowa Democratic Party headquarters is seen February 4, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. The announcement of the results in the Iowa presidential caucuses has been delayed after “inconsistencies” were found late Monday night relating to the app used to process the votes. The state Democratic Party said that the results will be manually verified before being released. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Associated Press said Thursday that it is unable to declare a winner of Iowa’s Democratic caucuses.

With 97% of precincts reporting from Monday’s caucuses, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg leads Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by three state delegate equivalents out of 2,098 counted. That is a margin of 0.14 percentage points.

However, even as the Iowa Democratic Party’s effort to complete its tabulation of the caucus results continues, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Thursday asked the Iowa Democratic Party to conduct a recanvass. That is not a recount, but rather a check of the vote count to ensure the results were added correctly.

Perez sought the recanvass following days of uncertainty about the results reported by the Iowa Democratic Party, which includes technology problems with the mobile phone app used by the party to collect results from caucus sites, an overwhelming number of calls to the party’s backup phone system and a subsequent delay of several days of reporting the results.

The Iowa Democratic Party suggested it may not comply with Perez’s request, issuing a statement that said it would conduct a recanvass if one was requested by one of the candidates.

Further, the party has yet to report results from some satellite caucus sites, from which there are still an unknown number of state delegate equivalents to be won.

“The Associated Press calls a race when there is a clear indication of a winner. Because of a tight margin between former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders and the irregularities in this year’s caucus process, it is not possible to determine a winner at this point,” said Sally Buzbee, AP’s senior vice president and executive editor.

The AP will continue to report and review the results from the Iowa Democratic Party as it completes its tabulation, as well as the results of any potential recanvass or recount.

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Associated Press Unable To Declare Winner Of Iowa Caucuses