"The next step will be for the state board of elections to review the Wayne County results and decide on whether to certify the votes. The state board is likewise made up of two Republican and two Democrats. If that board deadlocks, then it would go to the Republican state legislature."
OK, this sounds like it could actually amount to something.
First, those two Republicans on the Wayne County Board have guts.
Will the two Pubbies at the state level show the same resolve?
All they have to do is to vote "no".
That pushes the matter into the state legislature (which is Republican-majority, right?).
I'm wondering what the legislature's options will be:
- Go against the votes of their own party's board members, and approve the results?
- Side with the board members, and reject the Wayne County vote tallies outright (do they have the power to do that?)
- Order a hand recount and validation of the Wayne County ballots?
- Or... in view of the evidence that the election was irreparably tainted, and in view of the reality that the state must present electors as certified on December 8th, then appoint their own slate of electors?