Bost v. Illinois Bd. of Elections · ¶58

Here, the generalized nature of the “fair process” harm is indisputable: If Illinois's vote-count rule is unlawful, all participants in the electoral process—not only candidates for office but also every voter who has cast a ballot in the election—would be deprived “of a fair process and an accurate result.” Ante, at 77. But, as this Court has time and again explained, such an assertion of injury “amount[s] to little more than [an] attemp[t] `to employ a federal court as a forum in which to air . . . generalized grievances about the conduct of government.” Valley Forge, 454 U. S., at 483 (omission in original) (quoting Flast v. Cohen, 392 U. S. 83, 106 (1968)).

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