Pete Buttigieg — battling Joe Biden for second place in the Nevada caucus — is demanding the state’s Democratic Party release more data and correct what he called “errors and inconsistencies” during the vote count.
The former mayor of South Bend, Ind., sent a letter Saturday night saying in “light of material irregularities,” his campaign wants the party to release early vote and in-vote totals by precinct, correct early vote and second alignment errors identified by the campaigns and explain “anomalies” in the data, the Nevada Independent reported Sunday.
“Currently our data shows that this is a razor thin margin for second place in Nevada, and due to irregularities and a number of unresolved questions we have raised with the Nevada Democratic Party, it’s unclear what the final results will be,” Hari Sevugan, Buttigieg’s deputy campaign manager, said in a statement to the newspaper.
The letter, addressed to Chairman William McCurdy II, said the “process of integrating” early votes was “plagued with errors and inconsistencies” and that the campaign had received more than 200 incident reports from around the state.
The campaign wants the errors it identified in “three dozen emails” be corrected before the final caucus tallies are released.
With slightly more than 60 percent of the vote counted in Nevada as of Sunday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders had already been declared the winner of Saturday’s vote.
Biden was in second place with 19.6 percent of the vote, while Buttigieg followed with 15.3 percent.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was in fourth with 10.1 percent, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii trailed with 4.8 percent.
Molly Forgey, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Democratic Party, said it is working to verify and report the results of the caucus.
“We never indicated we would release a separate breakdown of early vote and in-person attendees by precinct and will not change our reporting process now,” she said.
“As laid out in our recount guidance, there is a formal method for requesting a challenge of results.”




