Sanders camp questions Iowa caucus results

Sen. Bernie Sanders Iowa campaign is questioning the results of Monday's caucuses.

After all precincts were reported Tuesday morning, the Iowa Democratic Party reported Hillary Clinton won 49.8 percent of state delegate equivalents in the Democratic Iowa caucuses. Bernie Sanders took 49.6 percent of delegate equivalents.

Sanders' campaign staff believes there may be discrepancies between the paper vote tallies at the precinct level and numbers that were reported to the state party.

"We feel like that there’s a very, very good chance that there (are discrepancies)," said campaign spokeswoman Rania Batrice. "It's not that we think anybody did anything intentionally, but human error happens."

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In total, 171,109 Iowans showed up for last night's Democratic caucuses, the party said.

The Sanders campaign had its own app that allowed supporters and volunteers to send precinct-level results directly to the campaign. At the same time, caucus chairs sent their official results to the Iowa Democratic Party via an app developed for caucus reporting, or via phone. The Sanders camp says it has seen some variation in its internal reports and the party reports. They hope to sit down and review paper tallies with the state party.

"We just want to work with the party and get the questions that are unanswered answered," Batrice said.

But the Iowa Democratic Party says the campaign was on hand as results trickled in.

"Last night, each of the campaigns had a representative in our tabulation room, because it was important to us that we were inclusive with our reporting, and that they had the opportunity to bring any concerns to us directly," said IDP Spokesman Sam Lau. "We worked with all three campaigns on resolving various issues, and this morning we reported verified final results for 100 percent of our precincts."

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Sanders' national campaign manager Jeff Weaver told the Washington Post on Tuesday that "as an empirical matter, we’re not likely to ever know what the actual result was."

Overnight, the Iowa Democratic Party worked to track down precinct chairs who had not reported results.The caucus chair, whose selection is confirmed by a caucus election, runs the meeting and reports the results back to the state party.

"There were a lot of problems with last-minute precinct chairs," Batrice said. "Our question is how much training they could have possibly gotten if they had just gotten them Sunday."