The mysterious arrival of van loads of boxes of ballots at counting places long after the polls had supposedly closed has been widely reported in numerous alternative media sources. If members here are free to hypothesize that armed people outside counting locations are there for the purpose of intimidating the counters, why should I not be allowed to suggest as a conjecture that they are there in the hope of preventing the delivery of more fraudulent votes? That conjecture offers a potential alternate motive for their presence.
Defending whom, such that firearms are necessary?
Are they qualified to know what is an invalid ballot? Are they trained to cross-check the against previously cast ballots? Are they law enforcement? Are they duly appointed/elected to election roles?
None of the above. It is a vigilante wannabe-group trying to intimidate. Absolutely banana-republic stuff.