A report in Bloomberg says that once the phone number for Iowa Democratic Party officials to report precinct caucus results became public, there were lots of calls from Trump supporters jamming the lines. The Trump campaign said it had nothing to do with it:

On Thursday morning, the Iowa Democratic Party confirmed it “experienced an unusually high volume of inbound phone calls to its caucus hotline,” which included “supporters of President Trump who called to express their displeasure with the Democratic Party.”

“The unexplained, and at times hostile, calls contributed to the delay in the Iowa Democratic Party’s collection of results, but in no way affected the integrity of information gathered or the accuracy of data sets reported,“ the party statement said.

The Trump campaign said Wednesday night it had no knowledge of its supporters calling the hotline.

“Don’t know anything about that but maybe Democrats should consider using an app of some kind next time,” Tim Murtaugh, a campaign spokesman wrote in a text message.

“Democrats are engulfed in the worst election embarrassment in modern history and they’re looking for someone to blame. It’s pathetic,” Murtaugh added Thursday.

So far there is no evidence that this was a coordinated effort to make it to intentionally jam up the phone lines to interfere with the reporting of results. If there is such evidence, it could well be a crime.

It is reminiscent of the 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming case, a story I tell in my 2012 book, The Voting Wars. Here’s a piece of that: