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After all of its struggles to release proper results from the Iowa Democratic caucuses Monday night, on Wednesday afternoon, the party released some mistaken results.

"There will be a minor correction to the last batch of results and we will be pushing an update momentarily," the Iowa Democratic Party said in a tweet, after it had released 85% of the long-awaited results.

Party officials did not say exactly what they would need to correct.

About 45 minutes after the tally reached 85%, the party tweeted that it had corrected the results and released some new ones. That brought the total number of precincts reporting to 86%.

There will be a minor correction to the last batch of results and we will be pushing an update momentarily. — Iowa Democrats (@iowademocrats) February 5, 2020

With 75% of precincts reporting, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick had not received any state delegate equivalents.

When the number of reported precincts reached 85%, he'd earned 21 state delegate equivalents. That immediately surprised Iowa politicos, because Patrick had spent very little time campaigning in Iowa and was not actively competing for support here.

The party's website said 1,677 people supported him on the first alignment and 1,768 people did so in the final alignment.

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After the Iowa Democratic Party released its corrected results, Patrick again was down to receiving zero delegate equivalents.

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The precinct-level data the party released showed it misreported results from Des Moines' 55th precinct, which was held in the lobby of Capital Square, a downtown office building that also is home to the Des Moines Register's newsroom.

The party's Wednesday afternoon results, before the correction, showed Patrick earning the support of 191 people in the first alignment and 218 in the final alignment. Those numbers actually belonged to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

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The numbers reported by the party also showed Steyer earning the support that actually belonged to Warren. And no support was tallied for Yang or "uncommitted," though there were some supporters in the room.

Carl Voss, who was the precinct's chair, said he was not concerned.

"They were fixed within the first hour," he said. "They took care of it. Someone was there to take the call and they took care of it."

Black Hawk County supervisor Chris Schwartz also tweeted that the party had incorrectly reported results in that northeast county. There, he said, Sanders' delegate support was allocated to Patrick in the party's tally.

The state party is now being forced to walk back their error of giving @BernieSanders delegates to @DevalPatrick who received zero votes in Black Hawk County. Press can dm me. https://t.co/yaS8pXvYM7 — Chris Schwartz (@SchwartzForIowa) February 5, 2020

Schwartz told the Register he reached out to Troy Price, the Iowa Democratic Party chair, on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to ask why information from Black Hawk County had not been released. He decided to post the results on social media.

“My constituents deserve to know what the results were on caucus night,” he said.

Schwartz then posted about discrepancies in the data that incorrectly showed Patrick with support in Black Hawk county.

“Deval Patrick definitely had zero voters. Not even just zero delegates, zero votes in Black Hawk County,” he said.

Wednesday afternoon, Sean Bagniewski, the Polk County Democratic Party chair, said on Twitter that local Democrats were aware that some of the results the state party had reported for the state's most populous "were incorrect." He said the Polk County precinct chairs and party officials were helping the state party get them corrected.

We’re aware that some of the Polk County precincts reported by the Iowa Democratic Party this afternoon were incorrect. Our precinct chairs and our Executive Director Judy Downs have notified the IDP and we’re helping them get it corrected. https://t.co/8hOxXv2Fdi — Sean Bagniewski (@bagniewski) February 5, 2020

Brianne Pfannenstiel is the chief politics reporter for the Register. Reach her at bpfann@dmreg.com or 515-284-8244. Follow her on Twitter at @brianneDMR.