Amid the fallout from delays in reporting the results from the Iowa Democratic caucuses, Texas Democrats are concerned that a recent change in the Lone Star State’s method of reporting election data could delay the results of its primary past election night on March 3.

The Texas secretary of state’s office recently told the state Democratic Party that its revamped reporting system will not be able to provide the data necessary to allocate a majority of the 228 delegates up for grabs on election night, the Texas Tribune reported.

"They basically said that's not built out yet," Glen Maxey, the special projects director for the Texas Democratic Party, told the newspaper.

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The formula by which 149 delegates will be divided is based on the distribution of the votes in each of the state’s 31 state Senate districts.

Maxey told the newspaper, however, that officials were initially told election returns would be collected at the county level but not the Senate district or precinct level. Maxey said party officials were told the detailed numbers would be supplied over “the next day or so.”

The state will award more delegates on Super Tuesday than all preceding primaries combined.

Texas Democratic Party Executive Director Manny Garcia said in a statement Wednesday that a failure by state officials to promptly report results at the Senate district level would be a “violation of the public trust,” the newspaper reported.

"Texas is more important to presidential campaigns than ever before and could make or break campaigns. With one of the largest delegations, in one of the most diverse states in the country, Texas is the pathway to winning the Democratic nomination,” Garcia said.

“The public deserves to see the vote and the delegate results on election night, and we urge the Texas Secretary of State's office not to leave Texas voters and our nation in the dark,” he added.