Will Trump interfere in the midterms? Democrats and their allies are preparing

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Set us as preferred Big-city mayors are giving poll workers panic buttons in case election skeptics question their work.County and state officials are gaming out responses to immigration raids near voting centers.Lawyers for Democratic states and civic groups are pre-writing legal challenges to ballot seizures.

And Democratic aides in Washington are preparing members of Congress to push back in the court of public opinion against any baseless claims of voter fraud in competitive districts.Across California and the nation, civic organizations, voting rights advocates and Democratic leaders are preparing for a raft of potential actions by the Trump administration to interfere in, subvert or deny November’s midterm vote.President Trump, an election denier for years, has without evidence described the U.S.election system as badly corrupted by fraud and dangerously vulnerable to both domestic and foreign interference.He has said he would do “anything necessary” to have “honest elections,” and has tried since returning to office to unilaterally rewrite the rules for voting nationwide and wrest control of elections from the states through executive orders and other administrative measures.Now, he has declined to rule out additional and unprecedented steps to force his will on the November election, including through emergency declarations and military deployments, and in February suggested Republicans should simply take over voting in blue states.Election experts say there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in American elections, despite Trump’s allies searching for years.Much of the work to resist any Trump interference or power grab is being done quietly to avoid revealing too much of the strategy to the Trump administration or stoking unnecessary fear among voters.It is designed to match what Trump’s opponents...