Count one more Alaska state delegate for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
Sanders collected one more delegate from rival Hillary Clinton on Friday after a challenge from his Alaska campaign found that proxy voting cards issued during the March 26 caucus were in violation of caucus rules, according to Sanders' state coordinator, Jill Yordy.
An overwhelming caucus turnout of over 4,500 people at West Anchorage High School last month resulted in a miscommunication for some members of state House District 18 in Anchorage. Some Clinton voters were issued proxy voting cards and left before the caucus fan-out was over, in violation of the delegate selection plan, according to Yordy.
She said the Democratic Party's credentials committee met Friday and decided that issuing the proxy votes was incorrect, issuing one more delegate from House District 18 to Sanders.
That puts Sanders' total state delegate count at 436 to Clinton's 103.
Alaska Democratic Party spokesman Jake Hamburg confirmed the committee met and said in a phone interview Saturday that the additional delegate will not affect the 16 pledged national delegates already assigned to Sanders.
Yordy said the whole situation was "a low-drama" thing, but that it was important that procedures were followed for "voters to be involved in a known way."
"You know, one delegate out of 539 is not realistically going to make a big difference," she said Saturday. "But in that House district you had over 300 people who stuck around and stayed for the whole process according to the rules."