Posted on 10/09/2014 7:57:18 AM PDT by Raebie
Ebola-hit Liberia has suspended its nationwide Senate polls after the election commission admitted it would not be able to stage the ballot safely, according to a government statement.
Almost three million voters had been due in polling stations on Tuesday but organisers said there was no way a "mass movement, deployment and gathering of people" could go ahead without further endangering lives.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was exercising powers under a state of emergency announced in August "to suspend... any and all rights ordinarily exercised, enjoyed and guaranteed to citizens", the foreign office said in a statement issued late Wednesday, quoting a presidential proclamation.
(Excerpt) Read more at standardmedia.co.ke ...
ping
Obama’s drooling...
That’s a bingo!
Finally something to do with this mess that Obama is sitting up and taking notice of...election cancellation.
How long until elections in the territory once known as “the United States of America” get cancelled? Can they do that in the next three weeks?
This could never happen in America. Nope. Never.
“”to suspend... any and all rights ordinarily exercised, enjoyed and guaranteed to citizens”
Key Language we can expect to see and hear Obie Repeat in the very near future,,
“It’s that darned ebola folks...bear with ME”
The presidential executive orders issued to control outbreaks of disease, as they are in place, cannot override the Constitutional responsibilities nor laws passed by congress and signed into law.
The states run the election, not the Feds.
The precedent is set. Sadly, when 0bama tries it here the republicans will go along with faux reluctance.
*This could never happen in America. Nope. Never.
Come on now!
This might happen in Eurasia, but it could never happen in Oceania.
Or, maybe that’s the whole point of making sure there is an epidemic.
Interestiing...
pResident Ebola would not try that here, would he?
Hmmmmmm. Is this Obama’s October surprise?
no kidding ... and nasty pelousy is trying to figure out how to make it happen here.
Probably not. In the next 2 years? We'll have to wait and see.
Ahem .... nothing more.
Hmmmm...
Just yesterday we learned that Ebola hits minorities the worst. It would be wrong to have an election during an outbreak.
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