Delay Election Day

Officials discuss how to delay Election Day :uhoh:

Talks stem from recent fears of terror attack timed to election
Sunday, July 11, 2004 Posted: 5:24 PM EDT (2124 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. officials have discussed the idea of postponing Election Day in the event of a terrorist attack on or about that day, a Homeland Security Department spokesman said Sunday. :disappoin

The department has referred questions about the matter to the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said.

The department wants to know about the possibility of granting emergency power to the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission, authority that Roehrkasse said was requested by DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the commission's chairman.

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, New Jersey.

He wrote in April to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice asking them to seek such legislation from Congress, Roehrkasse said.

Roehrkasse said the recent discussions were sparked by intelligence indicating al Qaeda wants to "disrupt our democratic process."

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned of such an attack in a news conference last week, saying it was based on intercepted "chatter" among al Qaeda operatives.

Roehrkasse noted, however, that there was no specific information suggesting such an attack would be aimed at the political conventions or Election Day.

Democratic Rep. Jane Harman of California, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, took issue with Ridge's comments Sunday.

"Six days ago, the leadership of the House and Senate intelligence committees and leadership of the House and Senate were briefed on these so-called new threats," Harman said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"They are more chatter about old threats, which were the subject of a press conference by Attorney General [John] Ashcroft and [FBI] Director [Robert] Mueller six weeks ago.

"[Ridge] sounded more like an interior decorator talking about what more we can do under the shade of yellow," she said.

What has Homeland Security officials worried is that terrorists could attempt to disrupt the election in same way that March 11 train bombings in Madrid created unrest three days before the Spanish general election, Roehrkasse said.

Although there is no evidence that the bombings influenced the Spanish election, Socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero unseated Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, whose government supported the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

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One has to just LAUGH!!!!!!! So what's Next..... They talk about not letting terrorist dictate their movements, but what message does this send?? Hmmmm.... :lol:

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Any thoughts???

Officials discuss how to delay Election Day :uhoh:
Any thoughts???

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4300008,00.html

Hell, since the touchscreen voting boxes they've forced on us DON'T WORK WORTH A DAMN, they could just call off the election because they "want to make sure votes are accurately counted" and "don't want a repeat of 2000" and such.

Doubt it's gonna happen. Kerry or Bush, the orders still come from Wall Street...

Ummm, maybe I'm missing something here, but if they "delay" election day until a later date, won't any potential terrorists just wait until then to spring there attack? :eek7: What would they do, just delay the election and then out-of-the-blue announce it to the voting public the night before it'll take place. That's just :screwy:

No, I can't see how they could justify delaying the elections. The process has remained on the same 4-year cycle since the beginning, and I should hope it won't be any different for Dubya's administration. Bad enough the elections have had to weather various vote-tampering outings...... :disappoin