There's also a grassroots problem: the reason it took desperate acts in the endgame to try to overturn the election was that election officials around the count

There's also a grassroots problem: the reason it took desperate acts in the endgame to try to overturn the election was that election officials around the country refused to bow to pressure to change the results at the local and state level. That layer of defense can't be taken for granted, especially given how aggressively hostile towards reality itself many local GOP officials are becoming.