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Buttigieg, Sanders Top Vote-Getters in Iowa Caucus

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   The final results from the Democratic Party's tumultuous Iowa caucuses
   were released late Thursday.

   The top two candidates have almost the same number of state delegates
   after Monday's caucuses.

   Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, won 26.2% of
   the delegates to the state's Democratic Party convention, while Vermont
   Senator Bernie Sanders earned 26.1%. However, Sanders leads in the
   popular vote.

   The state convention will determine how many of Iowa's 41 delegates to
   the national democratic convention each candidate will get.

   Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez called for a recanvass
   earlier Thursday after technical problems ruined plans to produce
   accurate and timely vote counts. A recanvass would mean reviewing the
   math worksheets of each caucus site.

   However, Troy Price, the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, said a
   recanvass would be initiated only if a candidate requests one, a
   scenario that seems unlikely at this point.

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