stopbush
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Mon Jul-12-04 12:24 PM
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If The Pres Election is Postponed, What Happens To State & Local Elections |
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What if state and local governments said, "fuck it, we need to hold our elections so we're going ahead with them." That would sort of throw the rationale for cancelling the pres election out the window, right?
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shoelace414
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Mon Jul-12-04 12:26 PM
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1. a presidental election is just |
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50 elections held on the same day.
(each state hold their own election)
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stopbush
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Mon Jul-12-04 12:28 PM
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Mon Jul-12-04 12:33 PM
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3. Dick Cheney would inform us that |
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since the election had to be canceled, the president is using his emergency powers as Commander in Chief to appoint governors, senators, house members, etc., until the "emergency" was over.
We know that Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist would uphold this bullshit. The question is, would Kennedy and O'Connor continue to support their appointed fuhrer?
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Mon Jul-12-04 12:36 PM
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Then we all would tell Cheney that we would take arms and resort to a Military coup We will fight in the streets to defend our freedom from tyrants like Bush
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