"DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton remains the winner of the Iowa caucuses after the Iowa Democratic corrected errors in several precincts.
The review of the count in select precincts came amid calls for an audit following reported discrepancies in the caucus results last week.
In one precinct, a single delegate showed up to vote for Sanders but was erroneously marked as voting for Clinton.
In all, party officials reviewed 14 precincts and found errors in five.
...The mistakes have also led to calls for the Iowa Democratic Party to change its process, which differs from the Republican Party's method of conducting a simple, secret straw poll.
The Democrats use complex math formulas, coin tosses and past voter turnout to calculate numbers from a series of headcounts..."
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