Iowa Democrats stonewalling on vote totals, but past numbers were available

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

After the ridiculously close squeaker in the Iowa caucuses, the state’s Democratic Party said it couldn’t release the raw vote totals for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

 

That simply isn’t how they do business, party officials insisted.

 

Even after they audited the results this week, Iowa Democratic officials would say only that Clinton won 49.84 percent of the vote and Sanders 49.59 percent, reducing her margin slightly to a quarter of a point.

 

Sanders has called for the raw vote totals to be released. The state party says that’s not the way it conducts the caucuses. And the press has pretty much let the matter drop.

 

But it turns out that hasn’t been the practice in past elections. Here are the raw vote totals for Iowa’s 2008 Democratic caucus:

 

Barack Obama, 93, 952.

 

John Edwards, 74,377.

 

Hillary Clinton, 73,663.

 

Joe Biden 2,328.

 

It’s not a secret document. It’s available on CNN’s website.

 

Iowa Democratic Chairman Andrea McGuire wrote in the Des Moines Register that the raw vote totals are irrelevant. “These are not contests of popular raw votes—nor do we think they should be,” McGuire said. “Asking for raw vote totals demonstrates a misunderstanding of our process.”

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Votes? What votes? They don't need no stinking votes!