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You don't need to target voting infrastructure. You target media infrastructure (DNS, streaming, web media) in order to either reduce or shift voter turnout. A candidate ahead in a battleground state? You stomp on media reporting to ensure their opponent's voters aren't dissuaded from heading to the polls.

Control the message, and through that the actual votes cast.

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I dont even think you need to necessarily shift voter turn out. I think you need to sow enough confusion in order to cast the results into doubt.

Yeah it just needs to be "The internet was broken so your votes were lost" and then some made up post-hoc explanations that 90% of people don't understand so they can't dispute

Given various fuckups over the years, media won't call a state until the polls are completely closed. Silencing them doesn't change this strategy.

This is not congruent with their behavior during the primaries.

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