By David Brand

As Board of Elections officials began organizing ballots and setting up tables at a facility in Middle Village, prominent election lawyers working for Melinda Katz and Tiffany Cabán appeared in Queens Supreme Court Tuesday to discuss the logistics of an unprecedented manual recount — and eventual election certification — in the primary for Queens district attorney.

Katz leads Cabán by 16 votes after an initial machine count of ballots and a manual tally of absentee and affidavit ballots deemed valid by the BOE, ahead of a recount of roughly 91,000 ballots cast in the June 25 primary.

“I don’t think we ever had [a recount], so this is the first one and unfortunately it’s the whole county,” said Katz’s campaign lawyer Frank Bolz, a longtime leader of the Queens County Democratic Party. “The Board has a big job ahead of them. And both the Cabán team and the Katz team have a big job ahead of them.”

The countywide recount will take at least 10 days to complete, said BOE General Counsel Steve Richman. He told Justice John Ingram that BOE officials are willing to work six days a week, including 8 hours on Saturdays,

Despite accusations of election fraud by some observers and rancor between the Katz and Cabán campaigns, Ingram noted that the two election lawyers, Bolz for Katz and Jerry Goldfeder for Cabán, were on the same page when it comes to the goal of the recount.

“Truly both sides agree, every vote should be counted,” Ingram told the attorneys.

“It’s good to work with experienced election lawyers because you know the law,” he added.