Joe Biden wins mail-in Wyoming Democratic presidential caucus after Bernie Sanders' exit

Joe Biden has won Wyoming’s Democratic presidential caucus, which h been postponed for two weeks and scaled back to just mail-in ballots because of coronavirus pandemic, state party officials said Sunday.

results come less than two weeks after Bernie Sanders dropped out and endorsed Biden, who is only candidate still actively seeking Democratic mination. Voting began when it was still a two-candidate race.

Biden beat Sanders 72% to 28%. A total of 15,428 votes were cast. Biden gets 12 delegates and Sanders gets two.

Party rules make Sanders ineligible to win delegates based on statewide vote. He is, however, still eligible to win delegates based on vote totals in individual congressional districts — Wyoming has one at-large district — which is why Associated Press allocated two delegates to Vermont senator.

Biden led Sanders in delegate count 1,305 to 939. Biden and Sanders campaigns are in talks over allowing Sanders to keep some of his statewide delegates. race for mination may be moot, but Sanders still wants as many delegates as possible to help shape party’s platform.

Wyoming Democratic Party anunced results after tabulating votes Saturday and auditing results overnight.

What was originally to be a combination of in-person caucusing, drop-off and mail-in vote tabulation on April 4 was scaled back to just drop-off and mail-in — and finally just mail-in voting.

Party officials n pushed back due date for mailed ballots and tabulation to help ensure participation.

mailed-in ballots were due at Wyoming Democratic Party hequarters Friday. Party officials used a courier to drive ballots to Denver for tabulation.

party for first time used ranked-choice voting to allocate delegates to Democratic National Convention in August. Voters could rank up to five candidates according to ir preference.

Besides Biden and Sanders, Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard; former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg; Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren; Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar; and investor Tom Steyer, of San Francisco; were on ballot.