DNC Chairman Tom Perez insisted that the party had learned its lesson from the botched Iowa caucuses and expressed optimism that this weekend's vote in Nevada would go off without a hitch
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Wednesday expressed optimism that the 2020 Nevada Democratic caucuses would go off without a hitch this weekend, insisting that the party had learned its lesson from the botched first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.
"I have a lot of confidence in Nevada. A really, really strong party," Perez told CNN. "We have gone to school on the lessons of Iowa. We're as low-tech as humanly possible while still preserving efficiency."The reassurance from the national party chief ahead of Nevada's caucuses on Saturday comes two weeks after the debacle in Iowa, where caucus results were significantly delayed and marred by mathematical, reporting and technological errors.
Following the controversy, Nevada Democratic officials scrapped plans to use a pair of apps similar to the one employed by the Iowa Democratic Party that contributed to the caucus fiasco — settling instead on a system of Google forms referred to as the "caucus calculator" to tally and relay vote totals. Perez defended the new technology on Wednesday.
"One of the problems in Iowa was we had a lot of volunteers who had to do back-of-the-envelope math. The caucus calculator is a simple tool. It's an off-the-shelf tool that enables them to do that math," he said, adding that the party is working to ensure "that the story Saturday night is the candidates, not the process.
"I used to be, you know, an amateur carpenter in my spare time. There's an old adage: Measure twice, cut once," he said. "Well, we're measuring four and five times, making sure people are trained, trained again, trained again. And anyone who is not comfortable, we'll train you until you are."
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