From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarro.

This is the Daily.

On Tuesday night, as the voting ends and the counting begins, the election system itself will be on trial.

Today, my colleague Jim Rutenberg, on the Army of Local Election Officials,

entrusted with certifying the vote,

who are prepared to reject it and create chaos in the weeks ahead.

It's Friday, November 1st.

Jim, this is our third presidential election in which Donald Trump has been on the ballot,

making the claim that if he loses, it will only be because the election was stolen from him.

He threatened to make that claim in 2016, but of course he won.

He very much made that claim after losing Ferenz Square in 2020, and now he's prepared to make

that claim once again on Tuesday night, or whenever the election is ultimately called, if he

loses.

And you covered every single one of those races.

In fact, I was in a studio

inevitably with you on election night for each one of those. And your beat has become essentially

election denialism in the United States in all the forms that it takes. So on the cusp of

this third election, where does this denialist movement now stand?

Well, Michael, thanks for reminding me of our long journey here.

But that's exactly what I've been spending the past few months trying to do.

And visiting swing states, going to local commission meetings to see

where this movement that really was born, forged in the chaos of January 6, 2021, has brought us

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