If you have 100 actual, real dollars in your pocket right now, and you don't know if they are counterfeit or not, they are somewhat 'legit until proven otherwise'. So someone has to prove that those dollars are counterfeit, not just allege that they are.
Actually, the 'crime' occurs at the moment someone tries to spend said dollars, but they don't typically actually 'verify' the bill when you spend it. I've seen a few fast-food joints in shady neighborhoods do a scan on $20 bills, but your typical business doesn't actually do any checks.
But that's not really my point; my point is, the dollars in your pocket may or may not be counterfeit; the ballots in AZ may or may not be counterfeit. Just because there were 'irregularities' does not mean every ballot was counterfeit, and any serious legal proceeding is going to have to validate (or invalidate) every single ballot, if that is the route taken. You can't just prove that, say, 20,000 ballots were counterfeit and say, "Trump won". There's a huge uphill battle ahead on this front.
If you have 100 actual, real dollars in your pocket right now, and you don't know if they are counterfeit or not, they are somewhat 'legit until proven otherwise'. So someone has to prove that those dollars are counterfeit, not just allege that they are.
Actually, the 'crime' occurs at the moment someone tries to spend said dollars, but they don't typically actually 'verify' the bill when you spend it. I've seen a few fast-food joints in shady neighborhoods do a scan on $20 bills, but your typical business doesn't actually do any checks.
But that's not really my point; my point is, the dollars in your pocket may or may not be counterfeit; the ballots in AZ may or may not be counterfeit. Just because there were 'irregularities' does not mean every ballot was counterfeit, and any serious legal proceeding is going to have to validate (or invalidate) every single ballot, if that is the route taken. You can't just prove that, say, 20,000 ballots were counterfeit and say, "Trump won". There's a huge uphill battle ahead on this front.