Of course, once the ballots are disassociated from the envelopes, there is no way to prove which go together. If that were the only thing at issue, there would be no basis for the court to allow the case to proceed.

There seems to be a greater issue here than the individual ballots. Under the Equal Protection clause of the constitution, the voters as a whole are entitled to a fair and equal process. It should be relatively simple to show that this one county used a much more lenient standard of verification than used in the past as well as that used in other jurisdictions. In addition, under the Common Law, a finding of fraud of a substantial nature, would require invalidation of the election regardless of other factors. Fraud could be established by showing election officials conspired to lower or ignore the standard knowing it would result in invalid ballots being counted.

I have to believe that Mrs. Lake and her attorneys are in this for the long haul and are not attaching their hopes on this Judge. The case will likely end up in the U S Supreme Court.