Iowa Democratic Party awards Buttigieg 14 delegates, Sanders 12 after caucus meltdown

The Iowa Democratic Party announced Sunday that Pete Buttigieg has won 14 delegates and Bernie Sanders will be awarded 12, following the party's disastrous first-in-the-nation caucuses last week that have been plagued with apparent inaccuracies in crucial voting data.

Less than an hour after the results posted, the Sanders campaign announced that it would seek a partial recanvass of some precincts in which there were apparent irregularities, Fox News has confirmed. The Iowa Democratic Party has allowed campaigns to call for a recanvass until Monday at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., won eight delegates; Joe Biden six; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., just one. Additionally, Iowa Democrats said they had reviewed voting data for 95 precincts and made corrections in 55 of them, accounting for three percent of the total 1,765 precincts in the state, after even more irregularities surfaced in recent days.

Sanders retained his significant lead in the popular vote in both rounds of caucusing. He fell behind in delegate count because some precincts are weighted differently by the Iowa Democrats, in a complex and little-understood -- and apparently poorly implemented -- formula.

As the meltdown continued to unfold Sunday, Jonah Hermann announced he would resign as Head of Media for the Iowa Democratic Party. He suggested that people should not question whether the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was again rigging the primary race against Sanders, as speculation would "feed[] into the narrative that will result in Trump's reelection."

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