WIRED: The GOP’s Strategy to Win the Midterms Is to ‘Overwhelm the System’

For the last two years, former President Donald Trump and his supporters have pushed the false conspiracy that the 2020 election was stolen. Now, they have a plan on how to ‘stop’ that from happening again: overwhelm the system.

Far-right extremists, QAnon supporters, and MAGA fans are all preparing to get everyone to vote on Election Day because, they believe, that will disrupt a possible Democratic steal.  …

And the edict to vote as late as possible has come from the very top. At a recent rally, Trump told the crowd that voting on Election Day was key because “it’s much harder for them to cheat that way.”

To be clear, just like there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, there is no evidence to suggest the 2022 midterms will be stolen. …

Jesse Littlewood, the vice president for campaigns with voting rights group Common Cause, told VICE News that while he has seen references to the plan to “overwhelm” the system pick up in recent weeks, he thinks that the idea is still relatively marginal.

There are, however, dangers posed by the spread of this message, particularly the idea that people should vote as late in the day as possible.

“The danger is that it could cause some of the voters who listen to this idea to miss their chance to vote,” Littlewood said. “If you believe that you need to vote late in the day on Election Day, if you have a family emergency, you could miss your opportunity to vote, so it could disenfranchise individuals who should have the right to participate in the election.”