Facing the possibility of big losses for Republicans in the midterm elections, President Trump has reiterated his unfounded assertions of electoral fraud. He has also begun speaking of the need to “nationalize” elections and for Republican officials to “take over” voting procedures in parts of the country. This rhetoric is often vague, coming across as a hint of a plan, rather than an actual one. But a map of potential targets may be coming into focus and includes the swing states Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, and Arizona. Voting experts, government officials, and others have identified a host of conditions that could make those places ripe for meddling from the Trump administration or its allies. In Michigan, a coalition of right-wing activists has obtained copies of about 150,000 absentee ballots and envelopes from the 2020 election, and is organizing to investigate them for errors, anomalies, or fraud. In North Carolina and Arizona, several Republican legislators and local election officials continue to embrace electoral conspiracy theories and have pushed for more control over voting processes. Most significant, in Georgia, the FBI, acting on a search warrant that relied o

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