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Some delegates in the Iowa caucuses are being decided by coin toss

By
Emily Jacobs
Published Feb. 4, 2020, 8:53 p.m. ET

Some precincts across Iowa found themselves in an awkward situation on Monday night when two candidates ended up with the same number of votes.

In order to break those ties and hand out delegates, the precincts conducted a coin toss — as recognized in the Iowa Democratic Party’s (IDP) rules.

The caucus chairs or other campaign representatives would throws the coin in the air to award the extra delegate when two candidates brought in the same number of caucusgoers.

Most notably, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) wound up in a tie in the Iowa Falls district, each holding 19 votes. A coin toss was conducted and the additional delegate went to Klobuchar.

The coin toss was required under state party rules in order to fairly break the tie.

In the 2016 Iowa caucuses, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Hillary Clinton had numerous ties that were broken by a coin toss, Dr. Karen Kedrowski, director of the Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University and an expert on caucus history, told The Post.

A Democratic caucus chair at the Algona precinct flips a coin to break a tie between Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar
A Democratic caucus chair at the Algona precinct flips a coin to break a tie between Elizabeth Warren and Amy KlobucharReuters

Results from the 2020 Iowa caucuses remain unknown on Tuesday evening amid a failed rollout of an app created by Shadow Inc., which was commissioned separately by the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) and NDP to build a program that could simplify and streamline the process of reporting caucus results.

Iowa Democratic officials have blamed the delay in the release of Monday night’s results on the app, with Party Chair Troy Price saying that while it was recording data accurately, a “coding issue” in the system allowed it to only report partial data.

The app, along with other changes that were made to Monday night’s caucus by the IDP, came in response to criticism from the 2016 Sanders campaign of how Iowa conducted its caucuses.

On Tuesday, Sanders’ 2020 campaign released internal figures showing the Vermont socialist leading top rivals with more than 29% of caucus support.

The official results from the Iowa caucuses will reportedly be released at 5 p.m. Tuesday, the IDP claims.