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[vaznetti]

So here I am, getting ready to travel again. Oh joy, oh rapture, oh bliss. At least the B.H. is at the other end of this particular journey.

I note with alarm--but not surprise, because I rather suspected that this would happen--that the current administration is looking for ways to postpone the election in case of terrorist attacks. Like terrorist attacks themselves, I do not believe that this is a partisan issue--I would like to believe that any Republicans reading this are as horrified as I am that an elected government would consider interfering with the regular workings of American democracy (clunky though they may be) for anything less than total catastrophe. Such a thing would be nothing less than the establishment of a tyranny.

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[meridym.livejournal.com]

This possibility has been mentioned in various lefty blogs for a long time, and each time I read various comments, I would shake my head and think there's no way it could happen. Now I'm not so sure. It's as if, by talking about it now, they're preparing us for the possibility, getting us used to hearing about it. It maddens me. What I've not yet heard is a legitimate reason we would need to postpone elections nationwide. How is it possible that a terrorist attack, even on Election Day, could make it impossible for the vast majority of the country to vote??

[maidenjedi]

But even if only one major city was affected on Election Day, does that not mean that the vote count would be called into question and we'd have problems anyway?

I'm not in favor of moving the election without provocation (I'm as against it as anyone), but I want to know what happens if an election day attack occurs. I have no desire to watch 2000 happen all over again, and that wasn't even because of a terror attack.

[meridym.livejournal.com]

But even if only one major city was affected on Election Day, does that not mean that the vote count would be called into question and we'd have problems anyway?

But if only one major city (or even more) were affected, wouldn't we know that, and wouldn't we be able to compensate for that rather than postpone the election?

[maidenjedi]

My question is *how* do we compensate for it, and that's what I hope is being discussed. I don't want a postponement and will oppose one.