The Real Election Risk Comes Later

Experts predict a torrent of election disinformation, online threats, and in-person tensions that could boil over into violence.

Election staffers are running drills with law-enforcement officers, studying nonviolent de-escalation tactics, and learning protocols for encountering packages containing mysterious white powder.

Experts say we’re likely to see a more dispersed, harder-to-track election-denial movement.

John Sutter : Election officials and police are working through alarming scenarios.

He says this election season could be more volatile than any in recent memory.

Trump supporters do not seem at all prepared to accept a loss, and any claim of a stolen election this year could prompt them to take matters into their own hands.

Experts say a breakdown of public order resulting from days of confusion and impatience could happen.

Experts don't anticipate the kind of paramilitary mobilization America saw in 2020 .

Experts say militia-type groups that gained national prominence in 2020 are thankfully in jail.

But experts are watching the parts of the country where militias have regrouped, including parts of Pennsylvania , Michigan , Oregon , and Arizona .