Distrust and disputes in 2016 compelled reforms to the state’s famously arcane process. But with the changes comes the possibility of fresh complications.
a “debacle,” singling out the Democrats for blame and finding, “Once again the world is laughing at Iowa.”“The Iowa Democratic Party really learned from 2016,” said Steven Drahozal, the Democratic chairman in Dubuque County.
The state party, along with its Republican counterpart, partnered with the Defending Digital Democracy Project at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The project’s leaders conducted a simulation with the parties in November. They were joined by security experts as well as developers behind the websites and mobile apps used by the parties to publicize caucus details and report returns.
The voting involves Iowans’ assembling in groups to signal their support for one candidate or another. These groups are known in caucus parlance as “alignments.” The relative sizes of the alignments are used to calculate delegate allocations. In most precincts, delegates are allocated only to candidates who receive at least 15 percent of the vote.
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