The state Democratic Party is releasing three sets of results, all at once, for the first time.
After everyone's initial preference is recorded, the shuffling begins. If a caucusgoer's initial candidate preference does not receive enough support to meet the precinct location's viability threshold , the caucusgoer is allowed to shift his or her support — or realign — to another candidate who did attain viability.
Caucusgoers who supported nonviable candidates can also band together to make one candidate viable. There's also the option not to choose another candidate, and the caucusgoer's vote won't be included in the reallocated tally.This second raw vote tally is called the reallocated preference, or final alignment, and it is the final raw vote tally of the caucus.
It's a formula: the reallocated preference multiplied by the number of delegates assigned to the precinct, divided by the total number of caucusgoers at the site. So the official results are not actual votes cast but, instead, the state party's estimates of the SDEs each candidate amasses. Iowa's 41 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention are allocated based on those results.
That means three different candidates could — with varying degrees of accuracy — claim a kind of victory in Iowa: the voters' first preference, the voters' realigned preference and the actual winner of the caucuses, the one with the most state delegate equivalents."We want to thank the people of Iowa," said Jeff Weaver, a senior adviser to Sanders' campaign.
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