Bernie Sanders is set to ask the Democratic Party of Iowa to reanalyze some districts in the Iowa caucuses following allegations from reporters and Twitter users pointing out irregularities in the final delegate results.
An official from the Sanders campaign confirmed to The Hill in an email that the campaign will seek a “partial” recanvass, but it wasn’t immediately clear how many precincts would be contested.
The announcement comes shortly after the Iowa Democratic Party released updated totals for the state’s caucuses held last week following days of uncertainty over the contest’s winner.
Totals released by the party on Sunday indicated that former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) would receive two more pledged delegates from the contest than did Sanders — 16 and 14, respectively. No other candidate won 10 or more delegates in the caucuses.
Some journalists, including The Appeal’s Daniel Nichanian, noted that even after Sunday’s update some of the delegate calculations remained incorrect, including one case where a precinct allocated more state delegates than it had to allocate.
The Iowa Democratic Party did not immediately return a request for comment on the recanvass request.
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