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Does that mean no recount is allowed, or does that mean there will be an ad-hoc endless legal battle for a recount?
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not sure how they could sue if there's no laws in the books for recounts.
You can file to sue without any solid grounds for it. Just up to the courts to determine if there's any merit to it. I'm sure there's some way it a lawyer could make some argument about the spirit of the law or something. Especially if the judge didn't like the outcome.
There's a little more to it than that too, though. Lawsuits can take years. For there to be an immediate ruling for some kind of injunction in the meantime, there's a really high bar you have to meet to show that they need to do anything other than preserve the status quo. And I'm pretty sure the status quo in this kind of thing is going to be that whatever the vote count they come to is what goes.
So, like, as I understand it whoever they count at least one vote higher for is going to get into office, and by the time a years-long lawsuit is completed, they, of course, ain't gonna do shit.
Not a lawyer, though. Just been peripherally involved in some civil court shit (what an absolute pile of irredeemable junk the liberal legal system is!).
That's my impression of it as well. Unless some judge just wants to play politics by granting an injunction, there's no hope of it affecting this election. At best, it could establish case law for how to handle this in the future IF no laws are passed on it before it happens again.