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The Democratic National Committee said Tuesday that errors responsible for heavy delays in the release of Iowa caucus results "should never happen again." Results from the Iowa Democratic caucuses were not released Monday due to a malfunction with a mobile phone app precinct captains used to report them. The Iowa Democratic Party said it noticed inconsistencies with the reports following the caucuses, forcing the data to be entered manually. Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said the app would not be used for the remainder of the primary election process. He also called on the app vendor to provide "absolute transparent accounting" of the app's coding issues. "Our immediate goal is to ensure that every vote is counted as quickly as possible," Perez said. "Accuracy is our guidepost." Troy Price, chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, called the delay in caucus reporting results "unacceptable" while speaking to the media on Tuesday. "We have been working day and night to make sure these results are accurate," Price said. The party started releasing new numbers shortly after 4 p.m. "Moving forward — just like we would would have on caucus night — we will continue to release results as we are able to. We are also executing our plans and procedures to gather the paper documents and chasing any additional precincts to report results as we normally would on caucus night," said Mandy McClure, IDP communications director. KCCI has learned that the IDC plans to meet with every single county chair in the state. In an email obtained by KCCI, the party is requesting voter rolls, caucus math worksheets, presidential preference cards and new Democratic voter registration.What's next? Former Chair of Polk County Democrats weighs inWhat went wrong: Tech troubles behind delay in Iowa resultsIowa’s first-in-the-nation status takes ‘huge hit’ amid reporting problems