This month, Trump dismissed the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections, currently leaving precisely no one in a position of authority for polling-place workers to contact should anomalies arise in November. Next, the president delivered a national address in which he claimed there was evidence of foreign meddling in the 2020 election by a relatively unfamiliar culprit: China. Whatever its stated purpose, the assertion seemed designed to cast a pall on the elections four months hence. The following day, Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin declared that balloting overseers in every state could face jail if they failed to cooperate with the administration’s efforts to change election policies. I’d like to sketch the maneuvers that critics say could amount to a grand vote-rigging scheme. These recent actions, while ominous, are only the latest salvoes. Lawmakers, election experts, legal scholars, columnists, and journalists have been shouting from the rafters that Team Trump has been busy laying track. Former Democratic senators Richard Gephardt and Tim Wirth, who …