CNN: As expected... the @BernieSanders campaign has filed a request for a partial recanvass

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(CNN)The Bernie Sanders campaign on Monday requested a partial recanvass of the results from the Iowa caucuses.

"While a recanvass is just the first step in the process and we don't expect it to change the current calculations, it is a necessary part of making sure Iowans can trust the final results of the caucus," Sanders senior adviser Jeff Weaver said in a statement.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

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1. The request includes a recanvass of 25 precincts and three satellite locations.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (KCRG) - Vermont Senator Bernie Sander's presidential campaign has officially requested a partial recanvass of last week's caucus results.

The request includes a recanvass of 25 precincts and three satellite locations.

According to the campaign, the errors, if corrected, would mean an additional national delegate for Sanders.

“While a recanvass is just the first step in the process and we don’t expect it to change the current calculations, it is a necessary part of making sure Iowans can trust the final results of the caucus,” Bernie 2020 Senior Advisor Jeff Weaver said. “Our volunteers and supporters worked too hard, and too many people participated for the first time to have the results depend on calculations that even the party admits are incorrect. Once the recanvass and a subsequent recount are completed in these precincts, we feel confident we will be awarded the extra national delegate our volunteers and grassroots donors earned.”

A recanvass is not a recount, but a check of the vote count to ensure the results were added correctly.

https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Bernie-Sanders-campaign-files-for-recanvass-of-caucus-results-567732531.html

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2. NEWS: Iowa Recanvass Reduces Sanders' SDE Deficit to Almost Nothing ...

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3. Bernie Sanders' campaign to request recount of Iowa caucuses

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE
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In the new results, released by the Iowa Democratic Party, Buttigieg has 563.207 state delegate equivalents and Sanders has 563.127 state delegate equivalents out of 2,152 counted. That is a margin of 0.004 percentage points.

The AP remains unable to declare a winner based on the available information, as the results may still not be fully accurate and are still subject to the recount.

The caucuses were roiled by significant issues in collecting and reporting data from individual precincts on caucus night. There were also errors in the complicated mathematical equations used to calculate the results in individual caucus sites that became evident as the party began to release caucus data throughout the week.

The Iowa Democratic Party had previously said publicly that the only opportunity to correct the math would be a recount, but after a vote by its state central committee, the party changed that policy. It agreed to change some mathematical errors during the recanvass, in instances where “the rules were misapplied in the awarding of delegates” to viable candidates. That changed the results of the caucuses slightly, but resulted only in a slimmer margin separating the two front-runners.

https://apnews.com/74508879cd193d3ba1f3b75909c0945e

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5. The IDP will recount the presidential preference cards for 23 caucus precincts Feb 25 - 27

Published 5:33 p.m. CT Feb. 21, 2020

The Iowa Democratic Party will recount the presidential preference cards for 23 caucus precincts, it announced in a news release Friday afternoon.

The recounts include all 10 precincts that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders requested be looked at again and 14 that former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg requested. One of the precincts subject to the recount requests overlaps.

The state party's recanvass/recount committee expects to begin the process on Tuesday and for it to last two days, the party's news release said.

In its recount request, Sanders campaign officials identified about 1.7 state delegate equivalents that it believes were misallocated — enough to give Sanders final victory in Iowa, given Buttigieg's razor-thin lead of less than a tenth of a state delegate equivalent.

The Associated Press has still not called a winner in the Iowa contest.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/02/21/sen-bernie-sanders-former-mayor-pete-buttigieg-receive-iowa-caucus-recounts/4822360002/

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6. AP decides not to declare Iowa caucus winner after recount

Feb 27, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iowa Democratic Party on Thursday released updated results of the Iowa caucuses after the completion of a recount requested by the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.

In the new results, Buttigieg has 562.954 state delegate equivalents and Sanders has 562.021 state delegate equivalents out of 2,151 counted. That is a margin of 0.04 percentage points.

The Associated Press has reviewed the updated results and will not call a winner, given remaining concerns about whether the results as reported by the party are fully accurate. The Feb. 3 caucuses were beset by technical glitches that led to a delay in reporting the results, inconsistencies in the numbers and no clear winner.

The party plans to certify the results on Saturday. At that point, the caucuses will formally end, and no further changes to the results will be made. Iowa awards 41 national delegates in its caucuses. As it stands, Buttigieg has 13 delegates and Sanders has 12.

A final delegate will be awarded to Buttigieg as the candidate with the most state delegate equivalents. The AP will update its tally of the national delegates won in Iowa with that final delegate on Saturday, once the Iowa Democratic Party formally votes to certify the results.

https://apnews.com/fc6777e93b8c50b2fd20e0d31fcc43b3

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7. Sanders' campaign said it has filed a challenge with the DNC.

02/27/2020 10:37 PM EST

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The results are still unofficial: The state party must certify the results by Saturday, the day of the South Carolina primary. And the Sanders campaign says it has already asked the Democratic National Committee to step in and review the recount process in Iowa.

The Associated Press said Thursday night it won’t declare a winner in the race until the results are certified, "given remaining concerns about whether the results as reported by the party are fully accurate."

But Jeff Weaver, a Sanders campaign senior adviser, told POLITICO that the Vermont senator's team was challenging the numbers. "We have already filed an implementation challenge with the DNC stating that the Iowa Democratic Party conducted its recanvass and recount in a way that violated their delegate selection plan," Weaver said.

Weaver said the campaign's challenge — which was filed with the DNC before the recount results were announced...

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/02/27/buttigieg-iowa-caucus-recount-118044