The state’s Democratic Party has planned to finally release partial returns at 5 p.m. ET Tuesday, some 21 hours after the caucuses began
, famously malfunctioned for months. And several states have had problems with touch-screen voting machines; in Mississippi last year, for instance, glitches with the machines caused some voters to accidentally pick the wrong candidates.
Federal election spending records showed the Nevada state Democratic Party paid US$58,000 to Shadow last year. But in a statement Tuesday, the state party said it would not be using the same technology or the same app maker used in Iowa to report the results of its own caucuses.“NV Dems can confidently say that what happened in the Iowa caucus last night will not happen in Nevada on Feb. 22,” Nevada State Democratic Party chair William McCurdy II said in a statement Tuesday.
“Everyone called them in, but we have no results,” she said. The party on Tuesday opted to collect paper voter cards, recording the numbers of votes for each candidate at each caucus site, and manually count them, to compare with the results received by phone and some partial results registered by the app.
For others, the imbroglio revived questions about the entire premise of the Iowa caucuses. The state of 3.2 million people is more than 90 per cent white and much more rural than the rest of the country, making it unrepresentative of the broader electorate. And the caucuses themselves are a laborious process that leads to low turnout.
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