Plausible deniability.

Remember, trump only knows a ridiculous bully bulldozer negotiation style - "I'm suing you for 11 trillion dollars!!!!"

That's ridiculous, so it all goes on circular fighting for months/years, eventually they settle for $17 million in a "big loss" for trump when he shouldn't have even had a penny in the first place.

In this case, the damage is already done at USPS and beyond.

• The predominate ballot machine company was just recently purchased by trump loyalists
• Biden was blocked on procedure but didn't take extreme measures to remove dejoy from USPS or to halt or reverse the damage he did.
• Musk manipulated votes in multiple ways, he now has more money and more criminal liability this time around... So he'll probably just sit this one out?
• flock cameras are watching you vote this time, scanning your face/plates, linked to a profile with your "estimated threat level" and deploying the limited number of brown shirts they have to most "efficient" areas where "they" are gathering based on flock cross referenced with exit polls and historical turnout for registered voters at a given polling place.
• ice agents may or may not disrupt polls directly, though the threat alone will keep many voters away. Though they may avoid direct voter intimidation beyond a couple early performative shows,, they may just cause strategic disruptions NEAR real time targeted key polling places (see above point) and disrupt common car/bus travel routes
• all the above in coordination with news/media and social media companies owned and run by complicit oligarchs with incentive to tell the story the other fascists need told.
• and a now mature cult, pardoned from consequences of a prior failed coup, likely impatiently waiting for another story of national violence to help them unite as perceived victims or bask in the glow of a "victorious" violent act for "their team".

So scotus does this with nothing to lose. Grandmas in Ohio then trust and defend the validity of voting and believe that checks and balances still in place to supervise an "overzealous" trump. They then refer back to this after the manipulated election to come - "Look! These liberals are never happy? The supreme court denied changes that we still should have had but didn't need, and they still lost, while cheating, and they can't accept it" and then broken scotus says your right actually and they rule the other way leading up to '28.

If we are still a country then.