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Could Next Week’s Election Be Delayed By Sandy?
TheBlaze,com ^ | Oct 30, 2012 | Mike Opelka

Posted on 10/30/2012 7:48:46 AM PDT by KeyLargo

Could Next Week’s Election Be Delayed By Sandy?

Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:58am by Mike Opelka

--- According to FEMA’s chief Craig Fugate, the delay in restoring power might play a role in the upcoming election. From his comments to the press last night:

“We are anticipating that, based on the storm, there could be impacts that would linger into next week and have impacts on the federal election.”


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: election; hurricane; hurricanesandy; obama; suspend
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NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs

Posted By Matthew Boyle On 3:58 PM 09/27/2011 @ 3:58 PM In DC Exclusives,DC Exclusives - Original Reporting,Featured,Politics,Yahoo! News | 68 Comments

As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years.

“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, N.C., according to the Raleigh News & Observer. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.”

http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/27/nc-governor-recommends-suspending-democracy-to-focus-on-jobs/?print=1

1 posted on 10/30/2012 7:48:48 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

If the government can’t come up with enough generators to run an election then we definitely need new government.


2 posted on 10/30/2012 7:52:01 AM PDT by tiki
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To: KeyLargo

Could Next Week’s Election Be Delayed By Sandy?

No.
3 posted on 10/30/2012 7:55:35 AM PDT by j_k_l
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To: KeyLargo

Title 3 chapter 1 USC...Just ignore that, I guess...


4 posted on 10/30/2012 7:56:44 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: KeyLargo

Sounds like a recipe for vote fraud.

A few years back an urban group spontaneously asked a St Louis judge to keep the polls open in da Hood until 10 because it was allegedly very busy. Miraculously that district delivered big for the D candidate.

This election should not be delayed for anything.


5 posted on 10/30/2012 7:57:53 AM PDT by lurk
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To: tiki

We don’t need election. There is no requirement.


6 posted on 10/30/2012 7:58:23 AM PDT by BlueMoose
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To: KeyLargo

Absolutely not. There is no Constitutional reason for delaying the election, and Obummer better not trying doing it by an executive decree.


7 posted on 10/30/2012 8:00:45 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

If he wants to kick start the revolution, that would be the way to do it.


8 posted on 10/30/2012 8:03:03 AM PDT by GnL
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To: KeyLargo

As Mark Steyn has said - a future dictator of the United States will never need to declare martial law. He will only need to declare a weather emergency to keep everyone indoors, and Americans wouldn’t venture out until they are told its all clear.

I am in Upstate NY - and for a week, all we heard about was how bad the storm would be for us, even though we aren’t close to the ocean.

All we had was a some moderately heavy rain for a few hours, that’s all - and yet the hype convinced everyone to close the schools, cancel all events, and scare everyone into buying up supplies.


9 posted on 10/30/2012 8:05:09 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: BlueMoose

Section 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector


10 posted on 10/30/2012 8:06:02 AM PDT by BlueMoose
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To: BlueMoose

Section 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector


11 posted on 10/30/2012 8:06:26 AM PDT by BlueMoose
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To: lurk

“A few years back an urban group spontaneously asked a St Louis judge to keep the polls open in da Hood until 10 because it was allegedly very busy. Miraculously that district delivered big for the D candidate.”

You know this is coming.

I can see it now:

Voters denied their right to vote due to flooded streets and polling places. Polls will remain open for one week to ensure a “fair” election.


12 posted on 10/30/2012 8:07:09 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo
Communists can come up with the damned stupid reason for winning this communists black Muslim another four. No delay. Romney to win.
13 posted on 10/30/2012 8:10:59 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: txrefugee

“Absolutely not. There is no Constitutional reason for delaying the election, and Obummer better not trying doing it by an executive decree.”

Obama won’t delay the election but you can be certain that
the Democrats will just delay the count in those hurricane affected areas.

And any guess on what the final counts for Democrats will be?


14 posted on 10/30/2012 8:14:44 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: j_k_l

This is over-hyped the the max. I’ve seen worse disasters at LegoLand. Do we really need Christie running around singing Obama’s praises, or the Shepster covering this until its dead? It was a bad thunderstorm, people need to get over it, because the MSM is just using this fake disaster to cover up Benghazi.


15 posted on 10/30/2012 8:25:00 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: KeyLargo

Obama will win NY and NJ anyway. No need for a delay.


16 posted on 10/30/2012 8:25:14 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: j_k_l

This is over-hyped the the max. I’ve seen worse disasters at LegoLand. Do we really need Christie running around singing Obama’s praises, or the Shepster covering this until its dead? It was a bad thunderstorm, people need to get over it, because the MSM is just using this fake disaster to cover up Benghazi.


17 posted on 10/30/2012 8:25:30 AM PDT by Viennacon
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"And any guess on what the final counts for Democrats will be?"

Obama ends up taking New York and New Jersey?

18 posted on 10/30/2012 8:25:57 AM PDT by voteNRA (A citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized)
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To: KeyLargo

That’s a joke, right? She did not really say that did she????


19 posted on 10/30/2012 8:27:49 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: KeyLargo
No, no, no, and no. It won't happen. They didn't end when the "Germans" bombed Pearl Harbor.

We had elections in:

1812 - during the war.
1856-1868 - Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War/War Between The States/War of Northern Aggression, reconstruction.
1932-1936 - Depression
1944 - World War II
1968 - 60's unrest, RFK, Nam
1972 - Nam
1980 - Iran
2004 - Iraq
2008 - Financial disaster

What's a natural disaster compared to these where a change in power dramatically affects matters.

20 posted on 10/30/2012 8:35:44 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Holding my nose one more time to get rid of Eric Holder)
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