Minutes from last night’s caucusing locations were coming in Wednesday, but were not due until Friday, he said.

Jefferson County Democratic party committees will meet sometime in the next week and a-half to make sure everything was done properly at caucus sites before announcing the results.

In all, there are 193 total Texas delegates — 126 from primary voting results and 67 from caucusing — that will be split between presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama.

According to CNN, as of Wednesday afternoon with about 38 percent of the state reporting their numbers, Obama was leading with about 55 percent of the state delegates in the caucuses, compared to about 44 percent for Clinton.

Deshotel said state party officials had set up hotlines for individual precincts to call once the caucusing was completed. Not everyone from the state’s total 8,700 precincts were able to get through, and caucus delegate results from those that were able to call the hotline, are unofficial, he said.

Chaos experienced at some of the caucusing locations spilled over to some post-voting Republican precinct conventions held at the same precinct locations, Doug Connor, Jefferson County Republican Party Chairman, said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

“We did have some problems concerning our precinct conventions,” Connor said. “There were just too many people for either a caucus or a convention.”

Overall, Connor said he was well pleased with the Republican primary election in Jefferson County which brought between 7,719 of the party’s voters to the polls.

Connor said he had expected more, but some Republicans who had strong feelings against either Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama voted in Democratic primary in an attempt to knock them out of the race as early as possible.

The lack of a contested Republican presidential candidate also contributed to less than record turn-outs, he said.

Connor said he was very pleased with the support from the County Clerk’s office. Any complaints about either party’s election should be directed at that party chair, he said.

Contact this reporter at skoonce@panews.com