Sanders Supporters Denounce Fraud at Nevada Caucus

The issue people are having is that Clinton won by 5 points, meaning a straight proportional split of ALL of Nevada's 35 delegates would be 18-17 after rounding. However, due to the way the Nevada caucus works, they split the delegates into three groups:

  1. Pledged (23)
  2. At-Large (7)
  3. Party (5)

Pledged delegates are assigned at the caucus, the others are the convention. The number of convention delegates is supposed to be proportional to the caucus results, but due to a reason I'm not sure of, the balance of delegates was off, favoring Sanders. (Sanders had 1662 of 3355 delegates, or 49.5% present).

This imbalance meant the other delegate groups could (possibly) be assigned NOT according to the caucus results, giving Sanders the greater number from each group.

This is where the rule-changing stuff came in. They voted (unfairly, depending on who you ask) to mandate that the at-large and party delegates are assigned according to the caucus results rather than the delegate number at the state convention. This is usually the case so it's usually a non-issue. This rule cemented the normal process, however.

So now each of the groups of at-large and party delegates are ALSO assigned according to the caucus results. Since Clinton won both, she gets the lion's share of each group. So the final delegate assignments were:

  1. Pledged (13-10)
  2. At-Large (4-3)
  3. Party (3-2)

For the final assignment of a 20-15 delegate split.

TL;DR: Sanders supporters were overrepresented at the state convention and wanted to secure extra delegates that way. The party changed the rules to force each delegate group to follow the caucus results.

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