{"id":120807,"date":"2024-11-01T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T04:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120807"},"modified":"2024-11-01T11:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T04:14:44","slug":"u-s-mulling-how-to-delay-nov-vote-in-case-of-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120807","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Mulling How to Delay Nov. Vote in Case of Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC\"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB\">\u0097 &#8212; <\/span>U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the presidential election in case of such an attack, Newsweek reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s excessive based on what we know,&#8221; said Rep. Jane Harman of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, in a interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Late Edition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned last week that Osama bin Laden&#8217;s al Qaeda network want to attack within the United States to try to disrupt the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Harman said Ridge&#8217;s threat warning &#8220;was a bust&#8221; because it was based on old information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Newsweek cited unnamed sources who told it that the Department of Homeland Security asked the Justice Department last week to review what legal steps would be needed to delay the vote if an attack occurred on the day before or on election day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">The department was asked to review a letter from DeForest Soaries, chairman of the new U.S. Election Assistance Commission, in which he asked Ridge to ask Congress for the power to put off the election in the event of an attack, Newsweek reported in its issue out on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">The commission was created in 2002 to provide funds to states to replace punch card voting systems and provide other assistance in conducting federal elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">In his letter, Soaries wrote that while New York&#8217;s Board of Elections suspended primary elections in New York on the day of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, &#8220;the federal government has no agency that has the statutory authority to cancel and reschedule a federal election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Rochrkasse told the magazine the agency is reviewing the matter &#8220;to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Republican Rep. 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