I addressed why Allen might bow out gracefully.

I think the Republicans cut their own throats when they did all this "amazing" suppress-the-vote stuff. This information *will* be brought before judges if the Republicans contest ballots, because it directly bears on wether the ballot was fair or not.

Now honestly, I can't prove or disprove whether this was a point in Allen's reasoning, and I don't know if it was or not. I do know for sure that a lot of thought went into the decision of whether to contest or not. There were Republican lawyers involved in that decision. If suppress-the-vote never came up in their conversation, then they were incompetent.