But the statute provides the opportunity for a manual recount.
"How could you conceivably do a manual recount in a large county without enough time?"
The manual recount was not expected to be completed until late tonight or early Sunday morning.
To do a full manual recount, it would take 16 hours a day for over a month.
That is, it made a decision not to continue with the manual recount.
Today, as officials began the manual recount, they immediately encountered another problem.
The only basis, and it's the common law, obviously, to have a manual recount, is in Section 166.
A full manual recount of all ballots is needed now.
Instead you went out and raised $730,000 for a manual recount of the ballots.
It is not an application for a manual recount under Section 166.