[lit-ideas] Tell Bush He Can't Stop the 2004 Election
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:09:50 -0700
Tell Bush He Can't Stop the 2004 Election
As you've seen in CNN, Newsweek, and countless other news sources this morning,
the Bush
White House is trying to figure out how to cancel or postpone the elections.
The Bush White
House is worried it may lose the elections.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is holding a public meeting
tomorrow, 1:00pm
Tuesday (7/13/04) at 1225 New York Ave, N.W., Suite 1100 in Washington, D.C.
If you are in Washington, go to the meeting and tell the Bush administration to
preserve
American democracy, require paper trails for touchscreen machines, and back off
its plan to
hijack the election for its own political gain.
If you're not in Washington DC, e-mail them at this address: HAVAinfo@xxxxxxx
You may also call them toll free at (866) 747-1471.
Visit the EAC at www.eac.gov
Pass this email to others.
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Exclusive: Election Day Worries
Newsweek
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5411741/site/newsweek/
July 19 issue - American counterterrorism officials, citing
what they call "alarming" intelligence about a possible Qaeda
strike inside the United States this fall, are reviewing a
proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November
presidential election in the event of such an attack, NEWSWEEK
has learned.
The prospect that Al Qaeda might seek to disrupt the U.S.
election was a major factor behind last week's terror warning by
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Ridge and other
counterterrorism officials concede they have no intel about any
specific plots. But the success of March's Madrid railway
bombings in influencing the Spanish elections-as well as
intercepted "chatter" among Qaeda operatives-has led analysts to
conclude "they want to interfere with the elections," says one
official.
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.
-Michael Isikoff
© 2004 Newsweek, Inc.
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