The confusion sparked by blockbuster Super Tuesday voting in Boulder County continues.

Early Wednesday, the county Democratic Party issued a news release announcing total voter turnout at 23,568, a figure subsequently cited by The Boulder Daily Camera.

But statewide results listed by the Colorado Democratic Party include a Boulder County vote total of 17,275 with 98.7 percent of precincts reporting.

In the Boulder County Party’s news release, that 17,275 figure is the vote count attributed to presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt.

So what’s the correct number?

Becca Moser, vice chair for Internal Planning and Implementation for the Boulder County Democratic Party, confirmed to The Statesman that the figures from the state Democratic Party were correct. She said the county party’s release, drafted at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, contained a miscalculation.

The current voter turnout tally in Boulder County is 17,524 — with 11,142 votes going to Sen. Sanders and 6,354 votes allocated to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

This confirmed turnout tally is more closely aligned with the 2008 Democratic Caucus results, when 17,774 votes were tallied in Boulder County.

Still, given the reports last night of long lines and voters being turned away from caucus locations throughout the county, it’s unclear how many people actually came out to vote. It’s also unclear why party leaders failed to account for the possibility of increased turnout this year due to the ongoing heated race between Sanders and Clinton and in light of the fact that Democratic voter registration in the county has jumped over the last few election cycles.

Democratic registration in Boulder County rose from 75,214 in January 2008 to 81,962 in January 2016 — a 9 percent increase.

At this time, it’s impossible to say how many would-be caucusgoers were turned away last night, but a proportionate increase in participants would factor out to 19,368.

That said, Boulder County Democratic Party Chair Lara Lee Hullinghorst is confident volunteers at caucus locations did everything they could to respond to the historic turnout.

“Our primary concern was getting people in the door to vote,” she said. “It breaks my heart any time a voter can’t vote, but I stand by what my volunteers did … I actually think what our volunteers did last night was overall remarkable.”

At Boulder High School, volunteers continued checking in voters to caucus well past 8 p.m. and stayed counting votes until well past 9 p.m. At Westview Middle School in Longmont, party volunteers delayed voting and checked in voters more than 30 minutes after the caucus was slated to begin.

— roxann@coloradostatesman.com