[rad-green] 'Beyond Absurd': DNC Chair Tom Perez Demands 'Recanvass' of Iowa Caucus Before Results Fully Reported

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/06/beyond-absurd-dnc-chair-tom-perez-demands-recanvass-iowa-caucus-results-fully
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Dreams          February 6, 2020'Beyond Absurd': DNC Chair Tom Perez
Demands 'Recanvass' of Iowa Caucus Before Results Fully Reported*


*"Let me see if I understand this," tweeted
<https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1225471631071567877> Sanders backer
Shaun King. "Ninety-seven percent of the votes are counted. Bernie surges
and is about to take the lead in delegates. Tom Perez calls for something
called a 'recanvass.'"by Jake Johnson, staff writer*

[image: Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez speaks to the
audience ahead of the Democratic presidential primary debate at Loyola
Marymount University on December 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)]

*Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez speaks to the audience
ahead of the Democratic presidential primary debate at Loyola Marymount
University on December 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Justin
Sullivan/Getty Images)*

*This is a developing news story... Check back for possible updates...*

Throwing yet another wrench into the endlessly disastrous
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/05/progressive-outrage-boils-over-utter-trainwreck-iowa-caucus-continues>
Iowa
caucus process, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez on
Thursday demanded an immediate "recanvass" of the vote even before the
results have been fully reported by the Iowa Democratic Party.

"Enough is enough," Perez tweeted
<https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/1225468833458245632>. "In light of the
problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection
plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling
on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass."

In a follow-up tweet sent 40 minutes later, Perez wrote: "A recanvass is a
review of the worksheets from each caucus site to ensure accuracy. The
[Iowa Democratic Party] will continue to report results."

The announcement by Perez, who has faced growing calls to resign
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/04/tomperezresign-dnc-chair-under-fire-iowa-disaster-favoritism-billionaire-oligarch>
since
Monday night, sparked further confusion and outrage, particularly among
supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

"Let me see if I understand this," tweeted
<https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1225471631071567877> Sanders backer
Shaun King. "Ninety-seven percent of the votes are counted. Bernie surges
and is about to take the lead in delegates. Tom Perez calls for something
called a 'recanvass.'"

As *Common Dreams* reported
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/06/new-iowa-results-97-precincts-reported-sanders-extends-popular-vote-lead-over>,
a new batch of Iowa caucus results released early Thursday morning showed
Sanders extending his popular vote lead over Pete Buttigieg to more than
2,500 votes and moving into a virtual tie in state delegate equivalents
(SDEs). As the results stand, Sanders and Buttigieg are expected to emerge
from the bungled, error-riddled
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/upshot/iowa-caucuses-errors-results.html>
process
with the same number of national delegates.

Given the Iowa Dem Party has been giving us the data as it comes - 62%,
71%, 85%, 97% - they need to give us the final data at 100%, then do the
recanvass.

This is beyond absurd.

— Alex Kotch (@alexkotch) February 6, 2020
<https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/1225470274893684736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

Ryan Cooper, columnist for *The Week*, wrote
<https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1225479428916072451> in response to
Perez's demand that "the timing of this (right as Sanders is likely going
to be declared a victor both on delegates and the popular vote) could not
possibly be more suspicious."

Tyler Pager, political correspondent for *Bloomberg News*, reported
<https://twitter.com/tylerpager/status/1225494446206279686>Thursday
afternoon that the Buttigieg campaign was in touch with Democratic Party
officials in Iowa earlier in the day and raised issues about how SDEs were
being calculated. In response to that reporting, *The Intercept*'s Ryan
Grim—who has also been tracking the developments closely—tweeted:

If Buttigieg is elected, he'll run out of managers to complain to. Hope he
has a plan for that. https://t.co/eI4rUDZ1ey

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 6, 2020
<https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1225497212139995141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

Part of the reference in Grim's tweet is that it was a complaint filed
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/02/release-of-major-iowa-poll-scrapped-after-pete-buttigiegs-name-left-off-survey>
by
the Buttigieg campaign last week that led to the *Des Moines Register* and
*CNN* from deciding not to release their joint pre-caucus poll in Iowa.

Grim also responded to other indications that Perez is pressing for a
recount specifically due to how well Sanders is fairing in the tabulation
of satellite caucuses—a dynamic he said that, if true, would be nothing
less than "corrupt":

If this was @TomPerez <https://twitter.com/TomPerez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>'s
actual reason this is nothing other than corrupt. I reported yesterday that
the satellite caucuses could make the difference for Sanders. This didn't
come out of nowhere. To order a re-canvass because Sanders surged at
satellites is staggering. Get over it https://t.co/nlCwII7oWr

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 6, 2020
<https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1225493434695344129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

*CNN*'s Jeff Zeleny, citing two anonymous people familiar with the matter,
reported <https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/1225472426894647296> that
the Iowa Democratic Party was not given advance notice of Perez's demand
for a recount.

"Perez doesn't point out that the DNC has been running the show in Iowa for
the last 48 hours," Zeleny tweeted.

Asked about Perez's call for a recanvass during a press conference in New
Hampshire
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/06/watch-live-amid-ongoing-iowa-debacle-bernie-sanders-delivers-campaign-update-new>
Thursday,
Sanders emphasized that he won the popular vote in the Iowa caucus and said
"that is not going to be changed."

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