Federal elections require that each state conduct their elections fairly. State legislatures are given the power to make their rules, and so long as those rules are adhered to then regardless of how annoying or stupid the rules are, it ensures the idea of a fair election.
If states do not adhere to the rules or change the process without doing so through the legislature (who would need to follow their own established processes), then it has the effect of disenfranchising all of the other states because federal elections involve all 50 of them.
The lawsuit is claiming that because the states in the lawsuit did not follow the procedures they were supposed to follow, and because those broken procedures lead to irregularities, to validate their reported results would be an offense to the states who followed their own rules.
Its not arguing that states can't function independently or that one state should dictate another. It's simply calling out the fact that the states establish their own rules for how to constitutionally alter election rules, that these states did not do so, and that as a result, they cannot be treated the same way as the states who followed the rules.
Federal elections require that each state conduct their elections fairly. State legislatures are given the power to make their rules, and so long as those rules are adhered to then regardless of how annoying or stupid the rules are, it ensures the idea of a fair election.
If states do not adhere to the rules or change the process without doing so through the legislature (who would need to follow their own established processes), then it has the effect of disenfranchising all of the other states because federal elections involve all 50 of them.
The lawsuit is claiming that because the states in the lawsuit did not follow the procedures they were supposed to follow, and because those broken procedures lead to irregularities, to validate their reported results would be an offense to the states who followed their own rules.
Its not arguing that states can't function independently or that one state should dictate another. It's simply calling out the fact that the states establish their own rules for how to constitutionally alter election rules, that these states did not do so, and that as a result, they cannot be treated the same way as the states who followed the rules.