Why are election officials in the US preparing for chaos before midterms?

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court for rejecting his push to curb mail-in voting, raising fears that the US president might use federal powers to meddle in November’s midterm elections.“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,” the president lashed out after the court verdict on Monday. The justices “are merely a shell of their original selves, a court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Selling the war: Purges, polygraphs and propagandalist 2 of 3Trump tells Zelenskyy to stop hitting Russian diesel supplieslist 3 of 3Tehran and Muscat delay talks, citing regional consensus needend of listThe ruling means states can continue administering mail-in voting under their existing procedures. Mail-in and absentee ballots have been used in the United States for decades and now account for roughly a third of votes cast nationwide.Despite the ruling, political analysts and some officials fear that Trump may not let the electoral process proceed as planned, and might pull some other strings to tilt the election in his favour.So wha...