American Memory
August 20, 2004
Memo: 'Terror' Election Barring Voters Could Stand by Ritt Goldstein
A recently unearthed government memorandum, "Executive Branch Power to Postpone Elections", prepared for the U.S. Congress addresses the power of the administration to postpone elections. But more notably, it reviews actions the executive branch might take that could preclude large numbers of Americans from casting a ballot in the coming presidential vote. It explicitly states, "the executive branch could make decisions that would make it impossible or impractical" for an election to occur.
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