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Originally posted by Jeff964
Read on MSN that the US government is contemplating postponing November's US election due to high probability of terrorist attacks in US.

Is delaying US Presidential election legal? Or is this whole idea masterminded by Bush and Cheney to avoid a repeat of what happened to Spain last's president after losing his election due to Madrid bombings.

Doen't anyone know what a contingancy plan is?

Lower Manhattin was shut down for several days after the WTC attack, and IIRC Power and water were out in places for a couple weeks. If that had happened on Monday before a presidential election, how exactly would voting take place? It is not like the inaugriation takes place the next day, if they need to push it back a few days, it is not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.

None of the reports I have read say anything about "US government is contemplating postponing November's US election", they have all been "if we had to postpone the election, how would/could we do it?"

There is some more info here:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/index.html

These are the parts the tinfoil hat crowd should pay attention to:

Originally posted by Condoleezza Rice
"We've had elections in this country when we were at war, even when we were in civil war, and we should have the elections on time. That's the view of the president. That's the view of the administration," she said. "No one is thinking of postponing the elections."

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Originally posted by Rep. Christopher Cox, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee
"We don't have any intelligence to suggest that it is going to happen, but we're preparing for all of these contingencies now," Cox said.

Noting that New York election officials were able to postpone their September 11, 2001, primary election after terrorists slammed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, Cox said "there isn't any body that has that authority to do that for federal elections."

"So what Secretary Ridge has asked the Justice Department to do is, 'Give me a legal memo, tell me what will be necessary. Do we need to go to Congress and get legislation?' "

Tom