[ChessExpert]

“IOW ... Knowing that the election was going to be stolen and that there would be widespread and sophisticated fraud, what efforts were taken to prevent the fraud, or at least to gather definitive evidence of the fraud?”

I found 17 acronyms for IOW, including Institute for Occult Warfare. That might fit the bill :).

I think Trump and Republicans were largely unprepared and blindsided. Yes, President Trump did warn that unrestricted mail-in ballots invited fraud. Good words meant to elicit good preventive actions, which never took place.

[Swirl]

“I think Trump and Republicans were largely unprepared and blindsided.”

They should not have been. It was discussed often here on FR before the election, and key people knew about the Dominion problem. Warnings about this were given before the election.

There was significant amount of early criticism on FR of Trump’s team being unprepared, undermanned, and underfunded as the law-fare state began.

[Eagle of Liberty]

I think Trump and Republicans were largely unprepared and blindsided.

And unfortunately, there were also some RINOs like Kemp and Raffensperger from GA who seem to be in on the steal...guess that would be part of the blindside.