This is from the July 13, 2004 program.

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I didn’t think they’d try this until September, at least. But I guess it takes a while to set the wheels in motion.
Let this post serve as a red flag that they are preparing to set the wheels in motion.
Looks like we’re going to have to fight for our right to even have an election.

U.S. Mulling How to Delay Nov. Vote in Case of Attack (Reuters)

Exclusive: Election Day Worries
By Michael Isikoff for Newsweek.
Here’s the
Freaked Out “Briefing” the Shrub folks are distributing. (Hey look, it’s an xml file 🙂
From the Newsweek story:

…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.

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