The only thing that will matter is the final vote count. Which will most assuredly go Murphy's way given everything we already know.

As Orlando Bloom said in front of Jerusalem in "Kingdom of Heaven":

"LET THEM COME!!!!"

The more they challenge the final vote count, and the will of the voters, the more bridges they burn behind themselves. NY-20 will wind up blue for many cycles to come because of the Republicans idiotic drive to marginalization.

"LET THEM COME!!!!"

There's a serious flaw in TPM's "this is normal and not newsworthy" take on the situation.

The Election Law in New York State, as elsewhere, provides for a sane and orderly process for counting votes, including in close elections. The normal course is to allow that process to play out, and only *then* go to court if a candidate feels they have been aggrieved.

In short, there was no need for Tedisco to either prematurely file suit in Poughkeepsie before the voting began.

Yet TPM is accepting as normal and unremarkable the idea that candidates should file to contest an election *before a single vote is cast.* Why did Tedisco do so? In order to push any potential election dispute into a friendly court.

That is precisely what Tedisco did.

It's not usual, and it's not right.

Now Tedisco's filing *again* because his lawyers screwed up the initial filing. This indeed is worthy of comment and outrage, because the initial offense was a heavyhanded and slimy move.

TPM is, no doubt unintentionally, condoning a practice which would, if it spreads, become a real cancer on the electoral process.

Bottom line: Unless we want all future elections in this country to feature a prematurely-filed lawsuit in advance of any votes being cast, this practice should be decried.

Do we think it's un-newsworthy and unimportant when a candidate tries to gain a leg up on an election through heavy-handed legal maneuvers such as judge-shopping?