Election Integrity Concerns in the Iowa Democratic and Republican Caucuses

[kster]

Watchdog Group Calls for 'Citizen Army' to Monitor, Document Less-Than-Transparent Tallying Procedures of Both Parties...

We don't pretend to fully understand the strange and confusing mechanics of the Iowa Caucuses (the Hawkeye Caucii, as Rush refers to them), nor do we make predictions about the results of such things (Edwards and Huckabee), but BlackBoxVoting.org sent out a missive over the weekend, with some very helpful information about how the Election Integrity aspect of the two respective party caucuses will, or won't, work, along with a the request to forward the info to folks in Iowa.

SNIP..."Problems and issues with the Iowa Caucuses" --- for both the Democratic and Republican parties, including the lack of precinct-based reporting of tallies, and even an apparently Republican-leaning company who is running one of the Democratic caucus web servers --- "And what every Iowan can do" about it, follow below from the BBV newsletter...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5495

[taylor egv420106]

1. What the hell are they sniffing?

Every single precinct fills out a form with their precinct results.

The results are basic math and its signed off on by the captains of the groups.