Sunday, July 11, 2004
Delay the Election?
U.S. Mulling How to Delay Nov Vote in Case of Attack
Impeach, Recall, Recount, Redistrict. Those are the methods Republicans use when they can't win legitimately. Can postponement be far behind?
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U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the presidential election in case of such an attack, Newsweek reported on Sunday.My guess is that they are preparing for Bush being behind 10 point a couple of days before the election.
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Newsweek cited unnamed sources who told it that the Department of Homeland Security asked the Justice Department last week to review what legal steps would be needed to delay the vote if an attack occurred on the day before or on election day.
The department was asked to review a letter from DeForest Soaries, chairman of the new U.S. Election Assistance Commission, in which he asked Ridge to ask Congress for the power to put off the election in the event of an attack, Newsweek reported in its issue out on Monday.
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Republican Rep. Christopher Cox of California, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN that the idea of legislation allowing the election to be postponed was similar to what had already been looked at in terms of how to respond to an attack on Congress.
"These are doomsday scenarios. Nobody expects that they're going to happen," he said. "But we're preparing for all these contingencies now."
Impeach, Recall, Recount, Redistrict. Those are the methods Republicans use when they can't win legitimately. Can postponement be far behind?
