Or if it is proven in court that all the votes are irredeemably compromised. Meaning that they are so compromised, it is impossible to validate them. I think a good analogy would be like someone mailing in their urine sample for a drug test via an honor system and the lab finds that you forgot to seal the bottle with tamper evident tape. How do you know it has not been tampered? If it shows positive for drugs, how can a court prove it was not contaminated during delivery? Furthermore, how can you prove to a court that it was your urine if there was no observer to validate it? In any situation, the sample would be tossed out. A similar situation has happened with our election. Irredeemabley compromised ballots have been mixed into all the legal ballots. Now it is impossible to validate any of them. It is like a urinalysis worker breaking the tamper tape off of all the samples and mixing them together into one giant batch and then attempt to determine which specific sample tested positive!
So if it is proven that the batch of votes are compromised, it would be just as impossible for them to validate the results as validating the urinalysis batch I previously talked about. Sure, the states may as well say "screw it" and certify the batch anyway. But it still doesn't change the fact that the ballots are all compromised (and you have everyone in the urinalysis batch fired for drug use).
