Question about this.
Wasn’t precedence set in 2000 when the Florida ‘rats only wanted to recount democrat precincts, and SCOTUS said that they had to recount them all?
All US elections are governed by State Constitutions; even Presidential Elections.
The Florida Constitution states that recounts must be state-wide. Nobody gets to pick and choose which Counties/Precincts are recounted and which are not. They must ALL be recounted, or none at all.
The Dems didn't want to recount the entire state, because there were places that might have flipped to Bush.
So the SCOTUS simply applied the law, and told the Dems, "Go ahead and recount - ALL the precincts". The Dems said, "We don't have time", which is nonsense. All the precincts are counted locally, at the same time.
It would have taken the same time to recount the entire state as it would take to recount one precinct. So the Dems spun the narrative that SCOTUS "Designated" Bush the winner.
“Wasn’t precedence set in 2000 when the Florida ‘rats only wanted to recount democrat precincts, and SCOTUS said that they had to recount them all?”
yes. not to mention each state has its own rules for recounts anyway.