... the campaign and countless legal organizations and observer organizations were poised to take on the flood of election denial actions expected if Harris won. I don't think they all just stopped their work and went home on 11/5.
I assume part of that effort included ground operations tracking counting and anomalies. As part of the effort, they necessarily have data analysts engaged who are staying on top of the canvass process and are on the look out for issues.
In Ohio 2004, estimates of the number of suppressed votes, as well as counts of wrongfully rejected votes, were documented, but it took a bit of time. It seems to me that we had/have a more extensive infrastructure in place this year for detecting and exposing problems.
Depending on the type of challenge, action may require certification before a challenge can be made. That is, for certain types of challenges, you can't challenge the rejection of votes (or failure to count votes) until those votes have been, or have not been, included in the official tally. Some challenges can take place before certification, but I am not really up on the law.
FWIW, Here are the certification dates. I believe county canvases may need to be completed prior to the state dates:
AZ 11/25
GA 11/22
MI 11/25
NV 11/26
NC 12/2
PA 11/25
WI 12/1
I am guessing that the campaign is poised, and has money to pay for, recounts in selected counties, e.g., places like Philadelphia County PA, were I am guessing a questionable number of mail ballots an provisional ballots have been rejected.
I don't think anyone has thrown in the towel without an appropriate level of investigation and/or legal action. But then again, they are not keen to kick off a shit storm before it is completely clear that it is necessary to ensure people have confidence in the election results.
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