Un-American.

Election Day Worries

I first learned about this from Medley, but then it was only a comment from Scott McClellan (although a hellishly scary implication nonetheless). I speak, of course, of the possibility that the November elections may be "postponed." And of course, you postpone them once, you can postpone them again and again...

They're actually seeking legal ways to do this. Going to Congress to get legislation to allow elections to be postponed. They must be stopped.

I told K, "If Bush cancels the elections we're moving to Canada."

"No, we're not," she replied. "We're fighting in the civil war which would result."

From the article:

As a result, sources tell NEWSWEEK, Ridge's department last week asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to analyze what legal steps would be needed to permit the postponement of the election were an attack to take place. Justice was specifically asked to review a recent letter to Ridge from DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Soaries noted that, while a primary election in New York on September 11, 2001, was quickly suspended by that state's Board of Elections after the attacks that morning, "the federal government has no agency that has the statutory authority to cancel and reschedule a federal election." Soaries, a Bush appointee who two years ago was an unsuccessful GOP candidate for Congress, wants Ridge to seek emergency legislation from Congress empowering his agency to make such a call. Homeland officials say that as drastic as such proposals sound, they are taking them seriously�along with other possible contingency plans in the event of an election-eve or Election Day attack. "We are reviewing the issue to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election," says Brian Roehrkasse, a Homeland spokesman.

"... what steps need to be taken to secure the election." That's a nice Orwellian phrase, isn't it?

It's been confirmed by NPR (at least) because that's where we heard it this afternoon. I hope other news organizations pay attention.