(a) The secretary of state shall adopt rules according to the Administrative Procedure Act establishing uniform recount procedures. All recounts provided for by sections 204C.35 , 204C.36 , and 206.88 , shall be conducted in accordance with these rules.
(b) Notwithstanding Minnesota Rules, part 8235.0800 , the requirement that ballots be recounted by precinct means that a recount official shall maintain the segregation of ballots by precinct but the recount official may recount more than one precinct at a time in physically separate locations within the room in which the recount is administered.