I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I think people inside the apparatus of both parties see the arcane and chaotic aspects of the process as their chanc

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I think people inside the apparatus of both parties see the arcane and chaotic aspects of the process as their chance to put their fingers on the scales, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what this brouhaha in Iowa is about -- a fight between people at the precinct level who want to maintain their power to influence the results by interpreting the rules this way or that, and people at the state level who want to iron out these "irregularities" (probably while maintaining any power they have at the state level to perpetrate similar shenanigans.) The public can and should put pressure on the parties to adopt more legible and transparent processes.