Alfred E. Neuman, aka Pete Buttigieg who came in a distant third in yesterdays’ Nevada caucus is already starting up claiming the caucuses in Nevada were rigged. His campaign is claiming that they have identified “irregularities” with Nevada caucus vote. Nevada saw very low turnout which has Democrats terrified.
| It begins: Buttigieg claims irregularities with Nevada caucus vote |
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The Buttigieig campaign says it has identified “irregularities” with the results from yesterday’s caucuses and is calling on the Nevada Democratic Party to release precinct-level data and correct any outstanding issues.
In a letter to state party Chair William McCurdy II last night, Michael Gaffney, the Buttigieg campaign’s director of national ballot access and delegates, says the “process of integrating early votes into the results of the in-person precinct caucuses was plagued with errors and inconsistencies.”
“We received more than 200 incident reports [yesterday] from precincts around the state, including a few dozen related to how early vote factored into the in-person results,” Gaffney writes.
“In numerous locations, the early vote totals were allocated to the wrong candidate,” according to Gaffney.
For the first time, Nevada held four days of early caucusing. In the letter, Gaffney asks state party officials to release early vote and in-person vote totals by precinct, and to correct any outstanding errors from the second alignment — after voters re-sorted in the caucus process — identified by any campaign or the party itself while performing quality control.
In a statement, Molly Forgey, a spokesperson for the Nevada Democratic Party, said: “We laid out our early vote and Caucus Day processes step by step and we communicated these processes to all campaigns. We are continuing to verify and to report results. We never indicated we would release a separate breakdown of early vote and in-person attendees by precinct and will not change our reporting process now. As laid out in our recount guidance, there is a formal method for requesting a challenge of results.”