"What has happened with the Iowa Democratic Party is an outrage, that they were that unprepared," Sanders added. "It has been unfair to the candidates, all of the candidates and all of their supporters."
"We won an eight person election by some six thousand votes," Sanders added, focusing on the first ballot popular vote taken at the Iowa Caucuses, expressing frustration with the entire situation.
Buttigieg has declared victory based on a separate metric in those same results, the number of state delegates to the Iowa Democratic Party convention, where Buttigieg has a slight edge.
As of Thursday, 97 percent of precincts from Iowa's Democratic Party caucuses have reported their results, though the New York Times reported that the results were 'riddled with efforts and inconsistencies.'
The remarks of Sanders from his New Hampshire headquarters came as the national Democratic Party chief, Tom Perez, called for a 'recanvass' of the Iowa votes to make sure the results were correct.
"Enough is enough," Perez stated on Twitter.
Enough is enough. In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.
— Tom Perez (@TomPerez) February 6, 2020
An analysis from @UpshotNYT found that data from more than 100 Iowa precincts was either "internally inconsistent," missing data or "not possible under the complex rules". The Times reported it does not appear to benefit Buttigieg or Sanders, overall https://t.co/oL2PpxNqvT pic.twitter.com/dzaJvpRMtv
— Zach Montellaro (@ZachMontellaro) February 6, 2020
Meanwhile, there was no sign the Iowa results would be official by next Tuesday, when New Hampshire votes in the Granite State's first-in-the-nation primary.
"Maybe we might want the decisions of the Iowa caucus before the November election," Sanders said.
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