Some Iowa Precincts Were So Close They Flipped a Coin

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

The race for county delegates in some precincts in the Iowa caucuses was so close Monday night that they ended up being decided by a coin toss.

In at least three precincts, Hillary Clinton won an additional county delegate after the lucky flip of a coin.

Under Iowa’s election system, the delegates decided by those few flips were among thousands of delegates across the state who are divided into their county caucuses.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iowa-precincts-close-flipped-coin/story?id=36664645

The rules are alleged to include a coin toss when it's close but suspiciously* Clinton won all of them.

See video and photos at link.

* Some people are suspicious about the multiple coincidences anyway.

 

[KeepTalking]

The race for county delegates in some precincts in the Iowa caucuses was so close Monday night that they ended up being decided by a coin toss.

In at least three precincts, Hillary Clinton won an additional county delegate after the lucky flip of a coin.

Under Iowa’s election system, the delegates decided by those few flips were among thousands of delegates across the state who are divided into their county caucuses.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iowa-precincts-close-flipped-coin/story?id=36664645

The rules are alleged to include a coin toss when it's close but suspiciously* Clinton won all of them.

See video and photos at link.

* Some people are suspicious about the multiple coincidences anyway.

They were totally legit coin tosses, heads and Hillary wins, tails and Bernie loses.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

They were totally legit coin tosses, heads and Hillary wins, tails and Bernie loses.

Oh, please. We're talking about the coins which are made at Obama's mints and they just happened to come up saying that Clinton won?

One more case of the establishment cheating and breaking the rules in order to have their agenda override the will of the people.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I'm sure someone's already accusing them of using a Susan B. Anthony coin...

 

[Jayjay]

The odds of Clinton winning all three coin tosses is 12.5%, which is so unlikely as to be impossible. Benghazi!

 

[dismal]

The odds of Clinton winning all three coin tosses is 12.5%, which is so unlikely as to be impossible. Benghazi!

Reports I have seen said she was 6-0 in coin tosses. That's about a 1.5% probability. Of course, things with a 1.5% probability do happen. About 1.5% of the time.

The interesting note is that apparently Bernie actually won >50% of the delegates not decided by a coin toss since Hillary won by 4.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

The odds of Clinton winning all three coin tosses is 12.5%, which is so unlikely as to be impossible. Benghazi!

Reports I have seen said she was 6-0 in coin tosses. That's about a 1.5% probability. Of course, things with a 1.5% probability do happen. About 1.5% of the time.

The interesting note is that apparently Bernie actually won >50% of the delegates not decided by a coin toss since Hillary won by 4.

You forgot: Benghazi!

Our election system is totally fucked up if we have to flip coins. Pathetic.

 

[dismal]

Reports I have seen said she was 6-0 in coin tosses. That's about a 1.5% probability. Of course, things with a 1.5% probability do happen. About 1.5% of the time.

The interesting note is that apparently Bernie actually won >50% of the delegates not decided by a coin toss since Hillary won by 4.

You forgot: Benghazi!

Our election system is totally fucked up if we have to flip coins. Pathetic.

It's not "our" election system. It's the Democrat's election system.

 

[Alcoholic Actuary]

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465268206/coin-toss-fact-check-no-coin-flips-did-not-win-iowa-for-hillary-clinton

In fact, there were at least a dozen tiebreakers — and "Sen. Sanders won at least a handful," an Iowa Democratic Party official told NPR.

Iowa has a multistep process for picking delegates. Monday night was just Step 1. Here's how it works:

1. There were 1,683 precinct caucuses on Iowa caucus night.

2. Those precinct caucuses elected 11,065 delegates to the county conventions, which take place March 12.

3. That universe of 11,065 delegates is whittled down to 1,406 who will attend congressional district (April 30) and state conventions (June 18).

4. And here's the root of what's causing all the confusion: The breakdown of those 11,065 is not reported on caucus night.

5. What IS reported, what Clinton's 49.9 to 49.6 percent tracing-paper-thin lead is based on, is "state delegate equivalents."

6. Those are ESTIMATES of how many of those 11,065 will attend the congressional district and state conventions.

So ... when those coin tosses are happening, they are elected delegates in that larger universe.

That means, for Clinton to have picked up the four delegates, she would have had to have won not six in a row, but more like 47.

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[T.G.G. Moogly]

Well, It's all going to be redone. Trump is calling it a fraud election.

 

[Terrell]

Hopefully the coin flips were better than this one.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The race for county delegates in some precincts in the Iowa caucuses was so close Monday night that they ended up being decided by a coin toss.

In at least three precincts, Hillary Clinton won an additional county delegate after the lucky flip of a coin.

Under Iowa’s election system, the delegates decided by those few flips were among thousands of delegates across the state who are divided into their county caucuses.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iowa-precincts-close-flipped-coin/story?id=36664645

The rules are alleged to include a coin toss when it's close but suspiciously* Clinton won all of them.

See video and photos at link.

* Some people are suspicious about the multiple coincidences anyway.

Three coin tosses. There's a 1 in 4 chance that somebody wins all of them. That's not enough for me to call it suspicious.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

You forgot: Benghazi!

Our election system is totally fucked up if we have to flip coins. Pathetic.

It's not "our" election system. It's the Democrat's election system.

It's the Iowa Democrats' system.

 

[Terrell]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iowa-precincts-close-flipped-coin/story?id=36664645

The rules are alleged to include a coin toss when it's close but suspiciously* Clinton won all of them.

See video and photos at link.

* Some people are suspicious about the multiple coincidences anyway.

Three coin tosses. There's a 1 in 4 chance that somebody wins all of them. That's not enough for me to call it suspicious.

Was more than 3, but still not enough for suspicion or conspiracy theories in my opinion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/02/clinton-wins-at-least-six-iowa-precincts-by-coin-flip/