on february 11, 2019, the iowa democratic party proposed several changes to the procedures used in the previous caucuses, including the addition of a period for "virtual caucuses" from wednesday, january 29, 2020 to monday, february 3, 2020 which will allow participants unable to physically attend the precinct caucuses to join in an online virtual caucus or teleconference in which they will be given the opportunity to rank candidate preferences, with support for non-viable candidates redistributed to viable ones. this process would continue until no non-viable choices remained, and the results would be aggregated with congressional districts for the purposes of delegate allocation but limited to 10 percent of state delegate equivalents, regardless of the number of those using the virtual caucus option. the results of both the virtual and precinct caucuses will be released on the night of february 3, and as a result of rules changes by the national party, raw vote totals for the first and second alignment periods of the caucuses will be published.