Even after three straight days of uncertainty, slow-bleed results, and malfunctioning apps, there is still no end in sight for Iowa’s Democratic caucus fuckery. With 97% of precincts reporting Wednesday night, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders stood in nearly a dead heat, with 26.2% and 26.1% of state delegates, respectively. But on Thursday, National Democratic party chairman Tom Perez, called on the Iowa party to carry out a recanvass, i.e., double count the votes to ensure no errors had been made. “Enough is enough,” he tweeted, citing shaky “public confidence in the results.”

Perez may have a point, but to some, the timing of the announcement was significant: It came just minutes after Sanders, who was leading Buttigieg by several thousand in reported vote totals early Thursday, had declared victory. (A top Sanders aide told Politico that they received no notice prior to Perez taking matters into his own thumbs.)

The timing of Perez’s announcement, plus the news that the Sanders campaign was not forewarned, has raised eyebrows on the left, with some Sanders supporters concluding that Perez and the DNC are conspiring against a Sanders win. Combined with the bizarre nature of the initial app mishap, reports that establishment Democrats are wetting their pants over a potential Sanders candidacy in the general election, and Perez’s own alleged involvement in hatching the “Bernie bro” narrative in 2016, the call for a recanvass has sewn even more suspicion than that which festered Tuesday night as results were gummed up.

Sanders himself has played it straight. When asked about Perez’s mandate, he replied, “All I can say is what I just said,” that “we won an eight-person election by some 6,000 votes. That is not going to change.” (Sanders was referring to the popular vote, where he has received 42,672 votes compared to Buttigieg’s 36,718. But Buttigieg maintains a narrow lead over Sanders in delegates, 550 to 547.) Perez’s ostensible motivation in calling for a recount, per CNN, had to do with the way satellite caucus numbers were reported. One source at the DNC told the network that Perez’s plan was a preemptive measure aimed at stopping one campaign from demanding their own recanvass.

It’s unclear whether the state party will fold, or whether caucus rules even allow for a forced recanvass. Iowa Democratic Party chair Troy Price released a statement shortly after the DNC’s announcement that was notably absent of any reference to Perez’s plea: “While I fully acknowledge that the reporting circumstances on Monday night were unacceptable, we owe it to the thousands of Iowa Democratic volunteers and caucusgoers to remain focused on collecting and reviewing incoming results,” he said. To add to the confusion, Price explained that the state party “identified inconsistencies in the data and used our redundant paper records to promptly correct those errors”; the New York Times reported on Wednesday that such results “were riddled with inconsistencies,” “missing data,” and mathematical errors.