Systemic problems: Systemic problems, problems with election law as written, as important as they are to fix, will not help with the contest -- namely, because the same systemic problems will almost certainly be in play in any revote. What needs to be shown -- and clearly has been -- is unique instances of illegal voting, or voting irregularities, that can be avoided in the next vote.
The reason I question this is because of the military vote. We might agree that the 'disenfranchisement' here is something that 'does not matter' in court but....
there are reports of possible violations of meeting post office deadlines and there is the strange 'back dating' just recently observed.
If there is evidence that a deadline was in fact missed although published otherwise, then that should be material to the courts.
In short, if King County promised to meet a deadline for mailing out military ballots and reported that they had indeed met the deadline but instead had lied or otherwise obfuscated the actual mailing dates that were after the deadline, then this could amount to misconduct as well.
I'd be interested in your views on this.
The real issue of systemic problems is that you would have to have the state AG and the Washington State Patrol watch the vote counting like hawks to get an honest count out of King County.