Will Baude

And, you know, then it's sort of awkward to say, oh, now the election is closed.

I guess we do have to litigate this.

So there's some attraction to a kind of general rule that you just try to get the rules right.

Or even litigate it.

Exposed, right?

Well, right.

So then, of course, we talked a couple episodes ago about the Purcell principle, the special election law rule that federal courts shouldn't enjoin state rules too close to the election.

On the eve.

On the eve.

The eve, also known as sometime in the 12-month period preceding.

And so if you waited too long, then you'd get Purcelled out.

Probably.

So there's a complicated body of remedial law about that.

Probably.

But, but that can get kind of complicated too.

Okay.

I mean, like Bush versus Gore in part involved the court just saying like it was time to stop counting the votes because it's getting to be too, too close to inauguration day.

Yes.

I mean, yeah, I'm just saying it's complicated.

Like, you know, there is a case that I taught in election law where a year into the term of the mayor of Miami, the Florida courts decide that actually there was rampant absentee ballot fraud in that election, throw out one entire precinct's worth of votes and decide that the other guy should have won and like oust the mayor from office.