{"id":79220,"date":"2026-09-27T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/trump-allies-could-use-midterms-counting-window-to-disrupt-results-experts-warn\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T06:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T11:55:57","slug":"trump-allies-could-use-midterms-counting-window-to-disrupt-results-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/trump-allies-could-use-midterms-counting-window-to-disrupt-results-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump allies could use midterms \u2018counting window\u2019 to disrupt results, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims<\/p>\n<p>Election experts have warned Donald Trump\u2019s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November\u2019s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting.<\/p>\n<p>With less than six weeks remaining until polls close, and control of US Congress in the balance, the post-election \u201ccounting window\u201d is seen as as a particularly vulnerable moment by former US federal government officials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/27\/trump-midterms-counting-window\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims Election experts have warned Donald Trump\u2019s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November\u2019s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting. With less than six weeks remaining &#8230; <a title=\"Trump allies could use midterms \u2018counting window\u2019 to disrupt results, experts warn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/trump-allies-could-use-midterms-counting-window-to-disrupt-results-experts-warn\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump allies could use midterms \u2018counting window\u2019 to disrupt results, experts warn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}