From: Gene McAloon 

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:03:18 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:

>
>"Gene McAloon"  wrote: Pass a
law to give the
>president that kind of power and you will be on that
>> slippery slope to dictatorship. The examples of this kind of thing used by
>> dictators everywhere are legion...
>
>No one is talking about giving this, or any president, that kind of power.
>The idea, and I'm not on board for it necessarily, is to have a back-up plan
>in place in the event the election process has been obviously, and
>undeniably compromised, due to catastrophic attacks that occur exclusively
>on election day, not the day before, not the week before and most certainly
>not because they're "threatened."
>
>It's not a matter of which party, or individual, holds the office of the
>presidency, it's about being sure that elections remain intact regardless of
>outside influences their agenda with beaucoup cash, we may have passed that point already -
>thanks to McCain-Feingold>
>
The obvious problem with having a plan in place is that you cannot because
the federal government does not have the power to postpone elections. You
would have
to pass a law allowing that power before the election. That is not going to
happen and it doesn't have to. If an attack occurs that interferes
significantly
with the election, Congress would then have to vote a law allowing
postponing. That could be done easily at that time. There is no reason to
pass such a dangerous law now.

In any case, forget about a big attack of such a nature that the election
would be interfered with to a significant degree. The AQ incompetents
aren't capable of doing that. If they were still capable of doing anything
at all in this country, they would be doing it. The idea that they are
waiting for the election
in November is farcical.

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