Recount recap NY-22 - back to the drawing board?

The Judge from New York basically punted everything back to the BOE and canvassing boards to redo everything they brought to him to rule on. I think both sides are spinning this as a little bit of a win. 

Brindisi and his team are going to argue that "recanvassing" all of these votes might add some new votes to the count. They are hoping that on top of the newly "found ballots" in certain counties, that some of the previously tossed votes will be seen as valid. 

Whereas the Tenney team can argue that the "recanvassing" will basically fall back to where they were before the dispute started. In other words, the election boards will rule the same way they ruled the first place, and the same ballots would have to be challenged again. 

Only it is unclear whether these challenges will then be ruled on by Judge Scott DelConte or not. You could take his ruling to suggest that he isn't going to decide the race (that this is up to the voters and "valid" votes). You could also take this ruling to suggest that he will rule on the challenged ballots, just that the election boards must follow the law and write the reasons for the challenge with ink on the back of the ballot (rather than with sticky notes). However, it's sort of unclear if the recanvassing he is calling for will allow watchers to challenge (or if there are even still watchers available to challenge). Without the same votes being challenged, the original challenges would never actually get ruled on?

Two of the counties have already come back with their recanvassing results, saying nothing has changed from their original count. The county (Chenango) that found the extra 66 ballots, have also reported that there was nothing new (other than those 66 ballots). They will presumably add however many of those extra ballots that are "valid" to their count. I think the key will be how the counties who have all of the challenged ballots view the ruling and how they choose to proceed. 

The Judge was clear that he wants the race decided by "valid" ballots and by "valid" voters, not the courts. What that suggests is anyone's guess. But the one thing that is not a guess, is that Judge DelConte is at the end of his rope with this thing. Who can blame him.

Oh... of course.... it's probably all for naught as Queen Nancy and her minions in the House will likely just vote to seat Brindisi regardless of the outcome of the election challenge, and the certified winner. I think we need some sort of law or constitutional amendment that takes that whole thing off the table. The states and the voters in those states should determine who represents them, not partisans in congress.