Iowa Democratic caucus results are plunged into crisis as party says it has found ‘INCONSISTENCIES’ and will have to use paper ballots in panicked statement saying it has NOT been hacked – and candidates leave without knowing who won

The Iowa Democratic caucus results were plunged into crisis Monday night as a new app failed, party organizers warned they had found ‘inconsistencies,’ and issued a panicked public statement to say they had not been hacked.

Caucusing around the state started at 7pm Central Standard Time. Three hours later, not a single precinct’s results were officially in.

‘We found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results. In addition to the tech systems being used to tabulate results, we are also using photos of results and a paper trail to validate that all results match and ensure that we have confidence and accuracy in the numbers we report,’ Iowa Democratic Party Communications Director Mandy McClure said in a statement. ‘This is simply a reporting issue, the app did not go down and this is not a hack or an intrusion.’

The underlying data and paper trail is sound and will simply take time to further report the results,’ McClure added. Earlier, other Iowa officials had pointed a finger at the app.

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