The High Court dismissed the appeal for want of a substantial federal question.

The case has to raise a "federal question" in order to be heard in federal court.

The Court dismisses the case "for want of a substantial federal question".

The federal questions that ultimately emerged in this case are not substantial.

The order the court issue said that the case involved no substantial federal question.

But the federal legal questions presented, with one exception, are insubstantial.

There needed to be a federal question, not just one of state election law.

The puzzle is what federal question exists here, of the kind the Supreme Court has power to decide.

Is every one of them now going to raise a potential federal constitutional question?

The court refused to intervene in the case, however, because it found that there were no federal questions involved.