From lawyer: "The problem that Kerry’s lawyers face now is “harmless error.” That is, even if Kerry’s team can find voting anomalies, courts will not order extraordinary remedies if they can’t change the outcome. Thus, if meddling with the provisional ballot process couldn’t change the outcome, then the courts will not order extraordinary remedies regarding those counts or other potential recounts. For those who are looking for analogies in previous elections, note that many states (such as Texas) exercised a policy in 2000 whereby they stopped counting absentee ballots when they found that it was statistically impossible for the absentee ballots to change the outcomes."
