“The underlying data and paper trail is sound,” she continued, “and will simply take time to further report the results.”īut multiple Iowa Democratic county chairs said they had struggled to use the app and were experiencing hold delays of up to an hour when calling into a phone hotline the party has used for decades. She added that this was “simply a reporting issue, the app did not go down and this is not a hack or an intrusion.”
“We found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results,” said Mandy McClure, the spokeswoman. Eastern time to tell them that roughly 35 percent of precincts had reported, but that it would provide no other details about the results.Ī spokeswoman for the state party issued a statement late Monday denying that the delays were the result of the new app’s failure. While vote counts in the past have typically been reported earlier in the evening, the Iowa Democratic Party held a conference call with representatives from each campaign at around 10:30 p.m.
Late Monday night, that chain of events came to a head when results from the Iowa caucuses were significantly delayed.
