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To: brian1501 who wrote (194201)	7/13/2004 1:18:11 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576881

When they start talking about postponing elections, a line has been drawn. You're going off the deep end. Don't you even think about telling me I am going off the deep end. Over 200 years of democracy, and never once has there been a time when we have developed or even considered contingency plans for an election. And what makes it worse........not one of you from the right on the SI threads objected. You all thought it was fine.......a practical thing to do. I am disgusted. Nobody is talking about postponing any elections unless absolutely necessary. All your conspiracy theory buddies on the net are talking about the Bush admin saying they have "intel" and using that to postpone the election etc. That's total BS. This administration makes up its intel as it goes along. The only scenarios I see something like that happening would be for a major event. For example say well placed terrorist attack(s)that take down the electrical grid on the east coast for several days. Things like that.<?I> There is no scenario so get it out of your head. I wouldn't think a bomb on a train (a la spain) would require such drastic measures, but somebody needs to be thinking of the possibilities and making whatever plans we can. Because there is no possibility. End of story. ted

To: brian1501 who wrote (194201)	7/13/2004 1:20:21 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576881

Posted 7/12/2004 10:44 PM Updated 7/12/2004 10:52 PM U.S. has no plan for election delay due to terrorism By Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Federal officials said Monday that they have taken no steps toward changing the date for the Nov. 2 presidential election if a terrorist attack should occur around that time. The issue of how to deal with terrorism aimed at disrupting the nation's elections was raised in a June 25 letter from DeForest Soaries, chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission. Soaries asked Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge whether procedures were being devised to guide local election officials and offered his agency's help. He noted that New York City had rescheduled its mayoral primary because of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "Unlike New York, the federal government has no agency that has the statutory authority to cancel and reschedule a federal election," he wrote. The date for federal elections is set by law and would have to be changed by Congress. Newsweek reported Sunday that U.S. counterterrorism officials are reviewing a proposal that provides for postponing the elections in the event of an attack. But Brian Roehrkasse, a spokesman for Ridge, said he was "unaware of any efforts to make plans for postponing the election." He said the department is working on issues involving how to secure polling places. But how to deal with delaying a constitutionally set Election Day is a "legal issue not within the department's purview," he added. The Justice Department has not tackled the issue either, an official there said. On CNN, President Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said, "I don't know where the idea that there might be some postponement of elections comes from." Voting in the USA is highly decentralized. The presidential election is just the most visible of hundreds of races on ballots across the nation's 8,000 voting jurisdictions. Each locality has its own laws governing how and when elections occur. The Election Assistance Commission was created by the 2002 Help America Vote Act to offer guidance during the voting process. But other than doling out federal money to help upgrade voting equipment and procedures, it is limited to an advisory role. Contributing: Toni Locy usatoday.com