goldstategop wrote: “Illegal under Bush vs Gore. It has to be a statewide recount. Stein campaign CANNOT cherry-pick counties as basis for a recount. I expect petition to be denied.”
Bush v. Gore ruled that the same standards had to be applied across the board. It did not require a state wide recount.
In fact: “The Supreme Court, in a per curiam opinion, ruled that the Florida Supreme Court’s decision, calling for a statewide recount, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This ruling was by a 7–2 vote, but (as discussed more fully in the next subsection below) two of the seven disagreed with the Court’s remedy for the Equal Protection violation.[30] The Court held that the Equal Protection Clause guarantees to individuals that their ballots cannot be devalued by “later arbitrary and disparate treatment”. Even if the recount was fair in theory, it was unfair in practice. The record, as weighed by the Florida Supreme Court, suggested that different standards were seemingly applied to the recount from ballot to ballot, precinct to precinct, and county to county, even when identical types of ballots and machines were used.[34]” wikipedia.
In practice though to apply equal treatment, all counties have to be looked at.
Which defeats the purpose of picking certain counties to recount.