Tuesday, February 02, 2016

Bernie Sanders hopes for 'honest' count of missing precincts

As of early Tuesday morning, Iowa's Democratic Party reported Clinton having 49.9 of the vote and Sanders receiving 49.6 percent. Despite 1 percent of the precincts still missing, Clinton's press secretary claimed victory.

Concern about voter fraud was raised late Monday night when C-Span posted video that showed a Polk County caucus chair and Clinton precinct captain did not conduct an actual count of the caucusgoers. Results were also slow to come in with about 5 percent of the precincts (roughly 90 precincts) going unreported at the time that Clinton and Sanders addressed their supporters late Monday night.

On a charter flight to New Hampshire, Sanders had no answers as to what happened with the count.

“Your guess is as good as mine as to what happened,” said Sanders. “I can only hope and expect the count will be honest.” .... http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com