HOUSTON -- On primary day, Texans came out in record numbers.

The response was overwhelming, and so was the confusion.

But now some question if a number of voters took advantage of that confusion.

“We realize that this was an unusual election,” said Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman. “We have cases where voters voted in one primary and then went and voted in another.” 

That’s why Kaufman on Tuesday presented the DA’s office with a list of 1,147 voter names.

Some of them, she says, voted in both the Democratic and Republican primaries.

Others, she says, voted twice in the same primary.

“I’m convinced that there are some instances where people had strong feeling on both sides of the aisle where they wanted to vote for a candidate on both ballots thinking they wouldn’t get caught,” Kaufman said.

But top Democrats had a different spin on what went wrong.

“Those people who actually voted in the Republican primary and then tried to mess with Democratic primary committed crimes, and they should be prosecuted,” said Gerry Birnberg, who is the Harris County Democratic Chair.

A lot of voters might have been confused by the candidates themselves, who told Democrats they needed to vote and attend their caucuses.

KHOU News contacted several Houstonians who are on the list for voting in the same primary twice.  They all declined an interview and said they were confused by the process.

Now the election night confusion is in the hands of the DA’s office, which has launched an investigation.