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[pauraque_bk]

I've just been told that the Department of Homeland Security is petitioning Congress for the right to postpone the coming election in the event of a terrorist attack.

Can someone please give me some solid information on this?

EDIT: A CNN article is here. Thanks, atdelphi.

EDIT2: There is also a BBC News article here. Thanks, muridae_x.

Comments

[pauraque]

Well, there's a couple of things. There's postponing the election because someone thinks there will be an attack (not a defensible position, if you ask me), and then there's postponing it because there was an attack, say a few days before the election, as in Madrid. I can see legitimate concerns that would support the latter, and I'm not even certain it would help the President if the election were postponed in that case.