'I'm very confident that we will be able to carry out a successful caucus,' Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said.
The Nevada State Democratic Party is implementing procedural redundancies in the hopes that its Saturday caucuses do not go the way of Iowa, where delayed reporting and caucus-site confusion earned that state's Democratic Party widespread criticism.
The Nevada Democrats commissioned a custom-made calculator to assist trained precinct chairs, who will access the app on iPads provided by the party, to perform the necessary math and factor in early-vote counts. The Nevada Democratic Party also says the phone line that will be receiving results from precinct leaders during Saturday's caucuses will be staffed with 200 people.
Mounce announced that the party has already consulted with the federal Department of Homeland Security on best practices. The department never evaluated Iowa's caucus app, a fact that critics highlighted as they noted concerns about potential vulnerabilities in that state. The bungled caucuses in Iowa catalyzed calls to reconsider the state's primacy in presidential nominating contests every four years, a notion that has ratcheted up the pressure to succeed in Nevada.
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