Can the election of Joe Biden be blocked by one very important legal principal --- the spoliation of evidence --- by election officials in several key states ?????

On those cases brought in federal court, even when spoliation is  >>> accidental <<<  courts have broad remedial powers to “order measures no greater than necessary to cure the prejudice” when such spoliation has prejudiced the other party. And when spoliation is done with intent to deprive the other party of use of the  >>> data <<<  such spoliation can cost you the case under the sanctions available under Federal Rule 37(e)(2).

This is particularly relevant in the State of Georgia, where a hand count of votes has recently been ordered by the Georgia Secretary of State, which has been called the equivalent of an "audit" of those votes  >>>  because even up to the most recent election cycles prior to 2020, state election officials in Georgia and/or their agents and contractors have had a history of destroying evidence related to Georgia's elections with lawsuits pending

On July 3rd, 2017 the Coalition for Good Governance, joined by a handful of Georgia voters, sued Georgia’s State Election Board and Secretary of State Brian Kemp (now Governor), for failing to secure the integrity of the election system.  The suit sought a writ of mandamus forcing Kemp to “fulfill his public duty to reexamine this system and its fundamental irregularities”.

Just a few days after the suit was filed, employees for the Center for Elections Systems wiped the server at issue, according to the Associated Press.  The server’s data was destroyed on July 7, 2017 by technicians at the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state’s election system. The data wipe was revealed in an email — sent last week from an assistant state attorney general to plaintiffs in the case — that was obtained by the AP. More emails obtained in a public records request confirmed the wipe.  Not only was the server erased, but two backups were “degaussed three times,” according to emails by a Center for Elections Systems information security staffer.
That data, the AP explains, “could have revealed whether Georgia’s most recent elections were compromised by malicious hackers.” 

Plaintiffs had planned to conduct an independent review of the server which, they believed, would show the election systems vulnerabilities—and put the results of Georgia's recent elections into question. 

Legal professionals know that the obligation to preserve evidence arises once litigation is reasonably anticipated, which can be long before a suit is filed. Wiping a server whose data is at the heart of a newly filed suit would be a fairly flagrant abdication of that responsibility.

Obviously issues of spoliation wrt certain evidence in cases like those being brought concerning the 2020 presidential elections  >>> such as those ongoing in several of the key battleground states <<<  one might reasonably expect the consequences of any spoliation to reach far beyond those lawsuits to the 2020 election as a whole.   

(The information for the post above  related to the incidents in 2017were largely as stated in "The Spoliation of an Election" by Casey C. Sullivan,  November 2, 2017   [https://www.logikcull.com/blog/the-spoliation-of-an-election]).