What Did — And Didn’t — Go Down In The Iowa Caucuses

But unfortunately we don’t yet have a better sense of when we might get results from Iowa. We are, however, turning the live blog back on so we can update you in real-time with new information as we learn more — the pace, though, won’t quite be what it was last night. We’re doing some more reporting on where things stand currently, and we plan to update as regularly as we can.

A quick summary of what we do know at this point:

• As editor-in-chief Nate Silver wrote earlier this morning, what happened in Iowa is unprecedented and could have ramifications for the whole nomination process.
• Additionally, there does appear to be have been a technical glitch in the app that precincts were using to record results — not a malicious cyber-attack — but enough inconsistencies that Iowa Democrats began running a “quality check” on results last night. In a statement earlier this morning they said, that the “the underlying data collected via the app was sound,” but it was only reporting partial results last night. The state party said they had fixed the issues, but that precinct level results were still being reported.

Stay with us folks, as we wait to learn more.

Well, folks, on that note we’re going to call it a night — for now. We’ve got a crew on standby for the morning, though, and know we will be back on the live blog monitoring this situation tomorrow as we wait for results. (It’s not yet clear when that will be.) We’ll also be doing some more reporting around some of the delays experienced this evening. Thanks for watching with us and come back tomorrow as this is a still developing story.

Iowa Democratic Party chair Troy Price gives a very short statement on the press call. He says at this point the IDP is manually checking the results. They expect to have results “later today.” The reason for the delay is that they’re checking the results against the paper trail.