A newly surfaced recording of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists last October reveals a multipronged GOP strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts. In the recording obtained by Politico, a Republican National Committee staffer outlines a plan to train and install volunteers to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places. Matthew Seifried, the RNC’s election integrity director for Michigan, also said Republicans are setting up a network of party-friendly district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts.

Matthew Seifried: “Truly, it’s going to be an army, right? We are going to try to recruit lawyers. We’re going to have more lawyers than have ever been recruited, because, let’s be honest, that’s where it’s going to be fought, right?”