Less than 48 hours after Election Day, the Democrats’ super election recount lawyer Marc Elias made it abundantly clear he wasn’t coming to Florida to get all the votes counted. He was coming to win an election.

At the time, Democrats trailed in the U.S. Senate race by more than 17,000 votes. But Florida’s second-most-populous county was still counting early votes cast more than four days earlier. And contrary to Florida law, they refused to update their count for the public at least every 45 minutes.