A commission headed by a Repug BUSH appointee who was a Baptist

[LittleApple81]

pastor WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL OUR ELECTIONS?? What the Cheney???

snip...
Newsweek said the discussions about whether the November 2 election could be postponed started with a recent letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge from DeForest Soaries Jr., chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The commission was set up after the disputed 2000 presidential vote to help states deal with logistical problems in their elections.

Soaries, who was appointed by President Bush, is a former New Jersey secretary of state and senior pastor of the 7,000-member First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset.

Newsweek reported that Soaries expressed concern that no federal agency had the authority to postpone an election and asked Ridge to ask Congress to give his commission such power.

Ridge warned Thursday that al Qaeda terrorists were planning a large-scale attack on the United States "in an effort to disrupt the democratic process." (Full story)

Ridge said he had no specific or credible information about threats to the political conventions. The four-day Democratic convention kicks off July 26 in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Republican National Convention begins August 30 in New York City.

more at link:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/index.html

[aden_nak]

1. "an effort to disrupt the democratic process"

"an effort to disrupt the democratic process"

Never before have I heard the Bush Administration summed up so well in one phrase.

[gatlingforme]

2. hmmmmm, I hope the Dems aren't sitting on their ass on this one. n/t