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I'm not sure where you got the information but the question doesn't make sense so allow me to explain.

The partitioner determines which node a partition belongs to based on the token value that is returned by hashing the partition key. For example, for partition key Ramirez:

    Murmur3Partitioner( PK = 'Ramirez' ) = -4404190778401486753

Let me use an example cluster to illustrate how tokens and the partitioner work. Here is the output of nodetool ring:

$ nodetool ring community
 
 Datacenter: Cassandra
 ==========
 Address        Rack        Status State   Load            Owns                Token                                       
                                                                               3074457345618258602                         
 10.101.33.146  rack1       Up     Normal  174.98 KiB      33.33%              -9223372036854775808                        
 10.101.33.196  rack1       Up     Normal  164.12 KiB      33.33%              -3074457345618258603                        
 10.101.36.82   rack1       Up     Normal  200.86 KiB      33.33%              3074457345618258602

From this example, here are the range of tokens owned by each node:

  10.101.36.82 : -3074457345618258602 to 3074457345618258602
 10.101.33.146 :  3074457345618258603 to -9223372036854775808
 10.101.33.196 : -9223372036854775807 to -3074457345618258603
                                         -4404190778401486753

This means that the partition with partition key Ramirez belongs to node 10.101.33.196 since the token for Ramirez (-4404190778401486753) is in the range owned by node 10.101.33.196.

When a coordinator gets a write request for a partition with last_name = 'Ramirez', the coordinator will forward the write to node 10.101.33.196. Similarly, when a coordinator gets a read request for the partition with last_name = 'Ramirez', the data will be retrieved from node 10.101.33.196.

To be clear, the partitioner doesn't assign tokens like what you stated in your question:

After that the token is used to assign ...

The token value from the partitioner hash function determines which node a partition is held. Cheers!