Question on Iowa Caucuses (NON-POLITICAL)

[silverscreenselect]

Mrs. SSS and I were watching the speeches by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on CNN, and they had results totals at the bottom of the screen. At one point, they showed 95% of the Democratic precincts in. Then, a few minutes later, there was an "update" and they showed that 93% of the precincts were in. (When they refer to vote in election results, they almost always mean precincts, not raw votes, and this was the case here).

How doe you go from 95% to 93% of the precincts reporting? Did they imagine that other 2% initially? DId they all of a sudden lose those votes? Did someone get in the Wayback Machine? That made no sense to me.

[Ritterskoop]

I would guess that a couple of precincts realized they had made mistakes, and withdrew their reports until they could confirm stuff.

[BackInTex]

Seriously? Its the media. They probably can't even give you the formula to use to calculate a percentage. Someone committed a typo and it got corrected, or maybe it was the correction.

[SpacemanSpiff]

How do you go from 95% to 93% of the precincts reporting? Did they imagine that other 2% initially? DId they all of a sudden lose those votes? Did someone get in the Wayback Machine? That made no sense to me.

My thought? Typo on the person punching the number into the screen at the network.

[Ritterskoop]

Six precincts had to decide their final result with a coin toss.

[Ritterskoop]

What I should have said was, at least six precincts went to Clinton on coin tosses.

One was tied at 84. Two delegates go to each candidate and the fifth went to Clinton on the coin toss.