The first is to deceive the electorate by spreading misinformation through bad actors through the media and social media to erode voter confidence. We are already seeing this in 2024 through challenges to voter status, disinformation about non-citizen voters (look no further than Wisconsin’s statewide referendum on noncitizen voting) and request that the ballots be counted manually.

The second is to disrupt or otherwise cause chaos in the electoral process. This could be accomplished by making illegal threats to election officials or targeting them with ads suggesting they don’t have to certify the results. It could also take the form of recruiting face-to-face survey observers or poll workers in swing states and training them to be “spies”. Or it could be submission “zombie trials” – which are submitted despite the fact that they have no chance of success, but can be used cancel the voters after that.

Finally, they reject any certification of election results they don’t like. This could look like Trump again claiming victory before all the votes had been counted given that we very likely could not have a clear winner on election night. It could also look like another campaign to pressure local officials whose job it is to certify county-level results or interest in the Electoral College process.