The Nevada Democratic Party will use a Google-powered calculator and party-issued iPads to track and tabulate results of the caucus.
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Culinary Union Local 226, Nevada’s most politically powerful union, declined to endorse any candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.
Most of the remaining Democratic presidential contenders are heading to Las Vegas to campaign in advance of the Feb. 22 presidential caucuses.
The Culinary Union Local 226 denounced “vicious attacks,” after supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders objected to a union flyer that declared the senator wants to “end Culinary health care” in favor of his Medicare for All proposal.
With New Hampshire’s primary in the history books, most candidates are headed to Nevada, where they face uncertainty about hwo votes will be tabulated and winners selected.
Supporters of top candidates are busy training volunteers how to run Nevada’s caucuses, including the mathematical formulas involved in awarding delegates.
Nevada Democrats had originally planned to use an app for the caucus. But after a similar app failed miserably in Iowa, the party scrapped it.
Unlike the secret ballots cast in states that use primary elections, Nevada residents declare their presidential preferences in public meetings known as caucuses.
The hiring of a top presidential candidate’s staff member to a position within the Nevada Democratic Party has increased scrutiny of the party.
A flyer circulated by Culinary Union Local 226 appears to attack the Medicare for All policy advocated by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.