Sanders 2020

The Iowa Democratic Party will recount the presidential preference cards for 23 caucus precincts, it announced in a news release Friday afternoon.

The recounts include all 10 precincts that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders requested be looked at again and 14 that former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg requested. One of the precincts subject to the recount requests overlaps.

The state party's recanvass/recount committee expects to begin the process on Tuesday and for it to last two days, the party's news release said.

In its recount request, Sanders campaign officials identified about 1.7 state delegate equivalents that it believes were misallocated — enough to give Sanders final victory in Iowa, given Buttigieg's razor-thin lead of less than a tenth of a state delegate equivalent.

The Associated Press has still not called a winner in the Iowa contest.