To speed up the process, he said, partisan observers will not be allowed to object to individual ballots, but will have to raise objections later.
Less partisan observers suspect that the sudden surge of cases may simply be a lawyers' market response to a lucrative new fashion.
He was a supporter of the opposition politician, Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, who is believed by his followers and many less partisan observers to be the true winner of last year's election.
Wiping their eyes in exhaustion, the three members of the elections board stood up in satisfaction when the counting was done and shook hands with the partisan observers who had monitored their every move.
Now, with only the disputed ballots left to be counted, it is down to the three-member board and the partisan observers, who are allowed to object, quickly, but not argue.
While having trained partisan observers inside polling places is a normal part of the voting process, "Trump has encouraged people to go on their own and check out what's going on in polling places", said Rick Hasen, a professor at the University of California Irvine law school and one of the country's leading election law experts.
If partisan "observers" show up to harass voters, you can drive them away.
And it's not at all clear that Democratic Party and Obama campaign officials, allowed inside polling places as partisan observers under state election laws, will be carefully monitoring voting machine practices, either.
By "complete representation", Herbart means the kind that arises of itself in the utterly non-partisan observer, moved by the object alone.
