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Vox: Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail.

Derek Clinger 02.09.26

"'The nightmare scenario used to be that Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act and have the military seize ballots and machines from a swing state on election night,' said Derek Clinger, senior counsel at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. 'But Fulton County suggests a much more plausible scenario: one where the seizure of ballots is conducted with the appearance of a legal process. I think that approach is both more likely to happen and also harder to challenge in real time.'”