{"id":13854,"date":"2020-02-07T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T00:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=13854"},"modified":"2020-02-07T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T00:03:45","slug":"questions-for-the-iowa-caucus-counters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/questions-for-the-iowa-caucus-counters\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for the Iowa Caucus Counters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FEBRUARY 6, 2020 (counterpunch.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/author\/fred-baumgarten\/\">FRED BAUMGARTEN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who decided there needed to be a \u201cbetter\u201d way to tabulate the results, and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why was the development of the app kept secret?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why was it rushed into use with no training or testing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was the exact nature of the reporting \u201cinconsistencies\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do we have certainty that every precinct\u2019s results were tabulated and reported?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are the final results still being withheld?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is being done to verify the results, how is it being done, and by whom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did Buttigieg\u2019s campaign quash the final poll \u2014 supposedly on the basis that someone wasn\u2019t given his name to choose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can we see the script(s)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did he declare victory before any results were released?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What exactly did the Buttigieg campaign pay the app development company for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What exactly happened when precinct captains tried to phone in their results?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why were they hung up on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why were those who took the results by hand, in person, turned away?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why were party officials unprepared to receive phoned-in results?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were there technical issues with the phones?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were they understaffed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why aren\u2019t caucus results proportional (i.e., a discrepancy between \u201cpopular vote\u201d and delegates)?<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CounterPunch-official-172470146144666\/\">Join the debate on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Fred Baumgarten<\/strong>&nbsp;lives in Sharon, Connecticut.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEBRUARY 6, 2020 (counterpunch.org) by\u00a0FRED BAUMGARTEN Who decided there needed to be a \u201cbetter\u201d way to tabulate the results, and why? Why was the development of the app kept secret? Why was it rushed into use with no training or testing? What was the exact nature of the reporting \u201cinconsistencies\u201d?&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/questions-for-the-iowa-caucus-counters\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13855,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions\/13855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}