DES MOINES, Iowa - What are the Iowa caucuses and why do they matter? This part of the caucuses — known as realignment — is the most crucial, and typically the most chaotic, portion of the night. At the end of realignment, the caucus chair takes a final count of the room, and transmits the numbers to the Iowa Democratic Party. The results in each precinct are used by the Iowa Democratic Party to calculate what’s known as the “state delegate equivalent,” or how many delegates each candidate gets at the Iowa Democratic Party convention. But the biggest change is the change in how the Iowa Democratic Party will report its results.

Source: thestar February 03, 2020 06:33 UTC