DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – The Democratic Celebration’s bid to choose a candidate to handle Donald Trump at the Nov. 3 U.S. governmental election remained in chaos on Tuesday, after technical issues delayed vote counting in Iowa to the discouragement of the party faithful and the delight of the Republican president.
There was still no winner on Tuesday early morning from Monday’s Iowa caucuses voting, with officials blaming “inconsistencies” connected to a new mobile app used for vote counting in the state that typically begins a U.S. presidential election year.
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It was a clumsy start to 2020 voting, after a bad-tempered governmental campaign 4 years ago that produced a surprise winner in Trump and caused a two-year federal investigation into election disturbance by Russia.
The head of Iowa’s Democratic Celebration guaranteed to launch results “as quickly as possible” on Tuesday but said the top concern was ensuring the integrity of the process and accuracy of the results.
” Every second that passes undermines the procedure a bit,” said Roger Lau, project manager for U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Trump mocked the Democrats, calling the caucus confusion an “straight-out disaster” in a Twitter post on Tuesday.
Democratic prospect Pete Buttigieg, the previous mayor of South Bend, Indiana, expressed frustration with the delayed results on Tuesday, after having said at a late-night rally he was going to the next early voting state of New Hampshire triumphant.
” I do not think there’s a person in the nation more restless than I am” to get main results, he stated on MSNBC.
Buttigieg and front-runner Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator, launched their campaigns’ own count of the Iowa vote which revealed them having done