With 62.77 percent of polling stations already counted, the former mayor of Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, takes a slight advantage over Bernie Sanders (27% versus 25%) in the Democratic Party primaries to choose the candidate for the United States presidential election, scheduled for November 3, 2020.
Elizabeth Warren (18%), Joe Biden (16%) and Amy Klobuchar (13%) are further back in this race.
“These results are not complete, but the results come from most polling stations and show that our campaign comes first. This is what we have been working on for over a year to convince Americans: that a new and better vision can bring new and better days, “Buttigieg said to his supporters in New Hampshire.
These results were released Tuesday, the day after a problem with the application that transmitted the results of the Democratic Party had problems in Iowa, leading to chaos and postponing the announcement of the results of that party’s primaries.
The app is said to have been developed by Shadow Inc., led by three former employees of Hillary Clinton, the former first lady and candidate for the 2016 presidential election.
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that the problem in the application is related to a coding error that will only have been discovered once the data started to be transmitted.
It was not the first time that parties used an application in Iowa. In 2016, both Republicans and Democrats turned to an app developed by Microsoft to communicate the results.
In Iowa, a small state in the Midwest, traditionally the first to vote in the primaries that define which candidate for the November presidential election in the US, voters have moved to as many as 1600 schools, libraries, gyms or churches to participate in citizen assemblies and choose your candidate in a vote count made by counting heads or by hand in the air. This system, very different from the primaries in other states, such as New Hampshire, which chooses its candidate on the 11th, where voters go to the polls and vote in secret, is called caucus.
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