Wyoming Democrats file challenge after Sanders wins vote but Clinton amasses more delegates

The latest delegate count shows Hillary Clinton just clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, but Wyoming supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders aren’t giving up yet.

A group of Wyoming Democrats filed a formal challenge Tuesday with the Democratic National Convention’s credentials committee after Mrs. Clinton came away with more delegates at the April 9 caucus even though Mr. Sanders captured more votes.

The Vermont senator won the caucus vote by 57 to 43 percent, but both he and Mrs. Clinton were later awarded seven pledged national delegates each. Mrs. Clinton had previously won the support of the state’s four super-delegates, giving her an 11 to 7 delegate edge.

“It was frustrating to see an 11 to 7 split in favor of Clinton after we had successfully organized a large turnout for Sanders in our state caucuses,” said Jon A. Gardzelewski, a Sanders delegate and Democratic National Committeeman-elect, in a statement. “How can you lose a state after winning it? This is not how you keep new voters in the system.”

The petition requests that the four super-delegates lose their votes and that other delegates are reallocated to give eight to Mr. Sanders and six to Mrs. Clinton.

The DNC could penalize the state for initially counting the caucus votes incorrectly — the first tally was 56 to 44 percent in favor of Mr. Sanders — by cutting the national delegation in half, which would mean four delegates for Mr. Sanders and three for Mrs. Clinton, although Mr. Gardzelewski said “we are not requesting this.”

The petition was signed by 24 Wyoming Democrats, mainly Sanders supporters.

Several news organizations declared late Monday that the former secretary of state had secured enough pledged and superdelegates to win the nomination, prompting a rebuttal from the Sanders campaign.

“Secretary Clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination. She will be dependent on superdelegates who do not vote until July 25 and who can change their minds between now and then,” the Sanders camp said in a statement.

“They include more than 400 superdelegates who endorsed Secretary Clinton 10 months before the first caucuses and primaries and long before any other candidate was in the race,” the statement said.

CNN has declared that Mrs. Clinton has 1,812 pledged delegates and 572 superdelegates for a total of 2,384, or one more than needed for the Democratic nomination.