pulitzer prize-winning reporter named barton gellman wrote a piece for the atlantic about this seemingly far fetched scheme.rtfo the article is called the election that could break america. the sub head says if the vote is close donald trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. who will stop him? this was in advance of the election, september of last year. he wrote about the scheme by which trump and his supporters would try to still the election or at least make it seem like r the election had no clear result.e gellman broke the news that republican officials in at least one swing state in pennsylvania had been in touch already ahead of the election with the trump campaign about a plot to have the republican-led state legislature in that state and others override the results from the voters. the state legislators would instead declare that the voters intent couldn t be clearly discerned. there were big problems in the vote. so instead the legislature