Whenever someone comes on TV introduced as a "national expert on American election law," change the channel, because no such person exists.  We have 50 very different sets of state laws that govern elections and just as many sets of courts with different ideas on how they work. Each state has to be considered by itself, taking into account what a contest or recount there might actually entail. For example, Michigan has a unique law that excludes precincts with mistaken paperwork from official recount totals.  These are not necessarily fraudulent, but often the work of sloppy, inept officials who give out ballots without securing signatures and properly counting them.  It happens every time in most of the Detroit precincts.  How well do you suppose Biden would do in a Michigan recount if half of Detroit is tossed out at the start?  Right now, Republican lawyers in each close state are gathering evidence and researching...(Read Full Post)