Plans To Cancel Elections After 'Terror Attacks'

[jcat]

nfowars.com/July 1, 2004

First we heard about the White House's "Nightmare Scenario" (officials stating, "It's going to happen...") then this article about plans to cancel elections after terror attacks came out. These are frightening indicators about the perfect problem-reaction-solution that might be planned for the control-freak dictatorship currently in power...

Associated Press | July 1 2004

WASHINGTON -- The government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again, says the chairman of a new federal voting commission.

Such guidelines do not currently exist, said DeForest B. Soaries, head of the voting panel.

Soaries was appointed to the federal Election Assistance Commission last year by President Bush. Soaries said he wrote to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge in April to raise the concerns.

"I am still awaiting their response," he said. "Thus far we have not begun any meaningful discussion." Spokesmen for Rice and Ridge did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Soaries noted that Sept. 11, 2001, fell on Election Day in New York City -- and he said officials there had no rules to follow in making the decision to cancel the election and hold it later.

Events in Spain, where a terrorist attack shortly before the March election possibly influenced its outcome, show the need for a process to deal with terrorists threatening or interrupting the Nov. 2 presidential election in America, he said.

"Look at the possibilities. If the federal government were to cancel an election or suspend an election, it has tremendous political implications. If the federal government chose not to suspend an election it has political implications," said Soaries, a Republican and former secretary of state of New Jersey.

"Who makes the call, under what circumstances is the call made, what are the constitutional implications?" he said. "I think we have to err on the side of transparency to protect the voting rights of the country."

Soaries said his bipartisan, four-member commission might make a recommendation to Congress about setting up guidelies.

"I'm hopeful that there are some proposals already being floated. If there are, we're not aware of them. If there are not, we will probably try to put one on the table," he said.

Soaries also said he's met with a former New York state elections director to discuss how officials there handled the Sept. 11 attacks from the perspective of election administration. He said the commission is getting information from New York documenting the process used there.

"The states control elections, but on the national scale where every state has its own election laws and its own election chief, who's in charge?" he said.

Soaries also said he wants to know what federal officials are doing to increase security on Election Day. He said security officials must take care not to allow heightened security measures to intimidate minority voters, but that local and state election officials he's talked to have not been told what measures to expect.

"There's got to be communication," he said, "between law enforcement and election officials in preparation for November."

From the White House, a nightmare scenario

U.S. News and World Report | 5/24/04 issue

White House officials say they've got a "working premise" about terrorism and the presidential election: It's going to happen. "We assume," says a top administration official, "an attack will happen leading up to the election." And, he added, "it will happen here." There are two worst-case scenarios, the official says.

The first posits an attack on Washington, possibly the Capitol, which was believed to be the target of the 9/11 jet that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Theory 2: smaller but more frequent attacks in Washington and other major cities leading up to the election.

To prepare, the administration has been holding secret antiterrorism drills to make sure top officials know what to do. "There was a sense," says one official involved in the drills, "of mass confusion on 9/11. Now we have a sense of order." Unclear is the political impact, though most Bushies think the nation would rally around the president. "I can tell you one thing," adds the official sternly, "we won't be like Spain," which tossed its government days after the Madrid train bombings.

hmmm wonder if they will have a terror attack just b4 the elections

just to keep mr bushy in power

[JackSpratts]

"Unclear is the political impact, though most Bushies think the nation would rally around the president. ‘I can tell you one thing,’ adds the official sternly, ‘we won't be like Spain,’ which tossed its government days after the Madrid train bombings."

wasn't bush running for re-election on his theory "he" kept the nation safe from attack? perhaps his theory will be his undoing.

- js.

[miss_silver]

Originally Posted by jcat

hmmm wonder if they will have a terror attack just b4 the elections

just to keep mr bushy in power

Try Doomsday Bill

U.S. House Approves 9/11-Inspired Doomsday Bill

Reuters | April 23 2004

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives mulled its own possible demise on Thursday as it approved doomsday legislation to speed its replacement in case of a widespread loss of lawmakers.

Passed on a 306-97 vote, the measure would require special elections within 45 days if more than 100 of the 435 House members were ever wiped out.

Such mass casualties would hamper the chamber's ability to conduct business -- such as helping provide funding and advice for any retaliation against a hit on Capitol Hill.

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yep

[Heathcliff]

One thing is sure: the republican's will pull every dirty trick in the book to poison the hearts and minds of the American people to make sure they vote with their gonads instead of their brains.

My prediction? Kerry will still win by by 1.5 million votes total.

But then 6 weeks later the Fascist crybabies will start in with the "he's a womanizer", "he's a liar" ect. shit. And then they'll fight like hell to hog-tie him in congress so he can't do anything. And then they'll cluck with self-satisfied glee how he stood by and did nothing while the country went further to hell. And the stupid sheeple will probably let them get away with it, indeed probably reward them with the presidency in 2008. Then all our asses are cooked.