I really don't like this bidness where they can challenge and force a hand count, but get to cherry-pick the precincts they want. It outta be all or nuthin.
Even if they don't win, they want to delegitimize Rossi so that he won't bleed off votes in the RAT legislature and get some of his program passed. As much as anything else, they're trying to circle the wagons amongs their legislators who might be middle-of-the-roaders, delegitimize Rossi so they won't be drawn over to him on the big legislative issues like the awful Growth Management law, and business regulation reform and tax reform.