AAR "morning sedition" will talk to CANCELLATION OF ELECTIONS GUY.

[LittleApple81]

They just announced it on AAR. We should listen to this. This is the guy:

A commission headed by a Repug BUSH appointee who was a Baptist pastor WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL OUR ELECTIONS?? What the Cheney???

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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

[shoelace414]

1. they found laywers that said torture is OK

[Walt Starr]

2. They should quote Title 3 of the U.S. code to his ass

It's already covered. If they hold an election and there's an attack, the state legislature decides what to do under the law.

[LuminousX]

3. Thank You

Not to be cold, but if Miami or Houston or Chicago gets 'attacked' and if thousands die, what does that really mean to voting in Seattle? Will people honestly suddenly shift who they are going to vote for and even if they do, isn't that their right?

It would make sense, in the above scenario, for Florida, Texas, or Illinois to set up an alternate election day.

Essentially, if there is a postponement, it should be decided by the state, not the Federal government.

[Walt Starr]

4. Under Title 3, the state decides

and it decides only at the time of the attack.

The only way Title 3 comes into effect under an attack scenario is if the attack occurs the day of the election and polls must be shut down, such as what happened in NYC on September 11, 2001.

If there is an attack the day before the election, the election goes on as scheduled.