Assume that the Rats win this one, and that the State pays for the recount. In the next election, I wouldn't be surprised to see those disruptive little Greens try to replace their candidate exactly 35 days before the general election. Just the type of granstanding ploy they might pull, and it would be hilarious. As the Rat lawyer said, the reason for the withdrawal is irrelevant....
The only way you can avoid this is 1) to require the Dems to pay for it themselves, which plays right into the Greens argument that this is unfair to minor parties with limited resources, or 2) change the law after the election to make the deadline hard and fast, so that nobody can do this again. Either alternative makes the Court -- and the Dems -- look bad.
There is no hard and fast for the corrupt democrats. If they get away with this, the "law" will become whatever they say to win. There will be no more fighting within the system. It will all be a giant fraud.
The dems must not be allowed to get away with this. "Politics is war by other means." The democrat party understands this much better than the pubbies.
The deadline already is hard and fast - but when the Democrats and their bee-yatches on the NJ Kangaroo Court are willing to destroy the Rule of Law (just like the Democrats and their bee-yatches on the SCOFLaw were) you can't hold anybody to anything.