I read that and it still wasn't clear. Is it Iowa's official primary election or not? It doesn't sound like it could be very official the way that they talk about the seeming infomality of it:
Presidential preference on the Republican side is done with a straw vote of those attending the caucus. This vote is predominately taken by a show of hands or by ballot. Democratic caucus-goers express their presidential preference through a short of hands, a sign-in sheet or by dividing themselves into groups according to candidate.
But then they say:
Democratic candidates must receive at least 15 percent of the votes in that precinct to move on to the county convention.
Is this a separate election that's the official one and what just occurred was done in order to weed out the laggers?
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Bitt Faulk