Then on Thursday, Dr. Snipes’s office failed by two minutes to meet the state’s deadline to submit results of a machine recount and blamed unfamiliarity with the state’s website for the error.

That wasn’t all: The bungled machine recount was more than 2,000 votes short. The canvassing board was forced to choose which results to use, while Dr. Snipes said the ballots that weren’t included in the recount had probably been misfiled with another stack of ballots.

If she had to do it again, Dr. Snipes said, she would find a larger facility in which to conduct the recount, because the close confines where they operated probably led to the “mishap.”

People aren’t talking about the things that went well, she said: 22 early voting sites that ran 12 hours a day for two weeks. More than 300,000 people who were accommodated for voting early, and another 200,000 by mail. She said her office also conducted supervised voting at nursing homes.

“I’m not going to say that I made major mistakes; I’m not going to say that,” she said. “A lot of things that we planned went exactly as planned.”

Still, she has been in the cross hairs of critics since almost the moment the polls closed.

In the first days after the election, an unruly crowd gathered in the parking lot of the elections office to protest, marching with signs featuring pictures of Dr. Snipes and chanting, “Lock her up.” The message was clear: Many Republicans were convinced that Dr. Snipes was subverting the ballot count to swing the election for Democrats in a county in which they hold a strong edge in voter registration.