[Publius]

This issue is being fought on the basis of a provision in the Washington State Constitution that permits the courts to invalidate an election in the event of fraud or incompetence.

There is no precedent in this case that can be used outside of Washington state.

[glock rocks]

This issue is being fought on the basis of a provision in the Washington State Constitution that permits the courts to invalidate an election in the event of fraud or incompetence. There is no precedent in this case that can be used outside of Washington state.

I'm just struck dumb that anything has become of this after this long. Very cool.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Unfortunately, even though it's based solely on the Washington State constitution, that doesn't mean some other state, who has an activist judiciary won't pick up on it and run with it, much in the way Justice Kennedy, or Ginsburg, or Stevens, et. al. run with foreign law when it suits them. If you track a lot of the "conflicts" of law and tort issues, you will see that states will often borrow from another if the judiciary thinks that state has a good policy.
I only wish we dealt with a judiciary that limited itself to the document it was interpreting.