The intervention of Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Democratic National Committee, along with the state Democrats’ misguidance, were cited as the primary drivers of the chaos that provoked the Iowa Caucasus earlier this year, according to a new state party-appointed audit. Distributed to the Iowa Democratic State Central Committee at a meeting Saturday morning, the report, obtained by Politico, identified a series of errors by the TNC, IDP, and the state-owned technology company that developed the reporting application. Collect Caucasus results. The February caucuses were thwarted by misconduct: the state party was unable to report a winner to the Caucasus night, the mobile app reporting the results failed to work many advance chairs, the backup phone systems were jammed and some campuses initially had reporting bugs. State party leader Troy Price resigned in the wake of the defeat, which put Iowa in first place in the race to nominate the country for the position.