What would be the outcome of the postponement of the election?

[genius]

[iconoclastic cat]

1. L.A. riots to the power of N

Very, very bad.

[Stew225]

4. Hey, I'm sorry but I think there should be some more

options to vote for. Aren't we perhaps overestimating the typical US citizen and underestimating the prowess of the Repug spin machine?

[iconoclastic cat]

5. Like "mass apathy," "groupshrug," or "tummy scratching"?

You may be correct.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. The 'Pukes will regret that their mamas gave birth to them.

n/t

:kick:

[GreenArrow]

3. The silence

of the lambs.

[NWHarkness]

6. Massive civil disobedience

Don't sell the American people short. Every city in America would look like Prague during the Velvet revolution.

[mongo]

7. How about neither?

All this chicken-little sky is falling crap over a legitimate question.

Consider this scenerio. Nov 2nd 5:00am, multiple terrorist strikes on the west coast take out the electric infrastructure. There is no way to count votes, some polling places can't open, people can't get to the polls in cities because of no mass transportation, no trafic lights, etc. For fun, lets add some attacks at nuclear power plants that cause a release of radoiactive clouds.

So, what do we do? Seems a valid question that has never been answered before.

What if there was no way to hold the election in CA, OR, and WA?

Should we hold it anyway and just forget about results from those 3 states? That would be 4 more years of Bush, for sure. Do we let those states vote later, knowing the results from the rest of the country? That could affect the outcome of the election too.

Right now there is no way to deal with the above scenerio.

[yellowcanine]

8. It is a non starter. There is no practical legal way to do it. That

doesn't mean that * won't try but it is a political non starter as well. For it to worked there would have to be a great deal of public confidence that * would not "game" the process to his political benefit. Thanks to his past shenanigans with the truth and lack of openness, that confidence is not there with most of the electorate nor will it ever be again. They have cried "Wolf!" too often. Heh.

[Journeyman]

9. I think yours is one of the best answers so far, yellowcanine. . .

It cannot be accomplished -- even with the best of intents -- because of the public's lack of confidence in ShrubCo's honesty.

I believe this is an issue that should be addressed in a national debate, reasonably and responsibly discussed and the specific causes/responses outlined and determined. In the event of some catastrophe that interferes with the orderly electoral process we need to have discussed our options well in advance, so intelligent decisions could be based on well-reasoned forethought. But there's no hope for that in the present situation. More's the pity.

We approach an election now fraught with legitimate concerns and should something occur to disrupt it -- internal or external, LIHOP or MIHOP or just some shit that happened -- we will all be caught in the emotions of the moment and such chaotic times are prone to the twists and turns of the most venal.