I have just the solution if the elections are cancelled.

[TruthIsAll]

Vote from home by paper ballot.

[happynewyear]

1. I already do that

It's called being a permanent absentee voter! :D

[stevedeshazer]

2. I already do that

It's called Oregon. :)

[bluedog]

3. they'd make sure

the post offices blew up.or mail planes crashed..or how about all federal buildings closed?

[sniffa]

4. um, canceLLed eLections - why wouLd you absentee count

if there's no eLection? are you maiLing it in to nothing?

[Occulus]

5. all those capital 'L's

must be a pain to do manually.

[TruthIsAll]

7. I meant if Bush says he must close the polls due to a terror attack.

If that is the case, we could vote from home. Its safe there, no?

[pandorapoet]

8. I hadn't heard they were thinking...

of closing the poles. A terror attack? I think that is ludicrous. Why would terrorists want to effect the election so directly? What would they do, put strychnine on the touch screens? If anything, wouldn't they want this possibility of a different president? Or do none of you think that 9/11 had anything to do w/Bush? I think Micheal Moore's latest movie has a few things to say on that note.

[ClassWarrior]

17. Yes, they are.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1969616

[newyawker99]

20. Hi pandorapoet!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[sniffa]

10. i understand that avenue

but if the eLections are canceLLed, they're canceLLed. your idea makes sense and is the obvious soLution to this issue. i however, know that eLections wiLL be canceLLed because bush is gonna Lose so i'm confident he won't give that option for whatever Lame ass reason he gives for it.

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Been doing so since 1992

And that was long before I was worried about electro-fraud or fake terrorism. Was moving at least once a year then and got tired of trying to remember where my polling place was.

[ex_jew]

9. I don't think you understand - cancelling the election means we live

in a dictatorship. Nobody will care about your homemade paper ballot. Either you decide to participate in the inevitable civil war or you're just playing games.

[sandnsea]

11. Oregon is mail-in

No reason to cancel our elections. Better make damn sure we win!!!

[jmowreader]

18. Bush has a HUGE reason to cancel our elections

The fucker's gonna lose. He's going to lose because the American people have finally figured out what he is and they don't like it. Right now we could run Saddam Hussein and get thirty percent of the vote, because as bad as Saddam Hussein is, he isn't George Bush. We could probably get fifteen percent with Hitler on the ticket, nineteen percent with Mussolini if we ran either one on a public-works platform--add 25 percent if they promise to close all of Bush's concentration camps and not open any new ones--and 22 percent with Satan. Hideki Tojo would be a stretch; he's not Bush, which works in our favor, but he's Japanese which may go against us. (If we're gonna be led by a dictator, let's at least get a competent one.)

The only way he can possibly remain in power is if the elections are suspended for the "duration of the emergency." (Since the emergency is that the American people really hate George Bush, it ends when Bush dies or some general who's had enough of Bush's shit has his troops go to the White House and put him into custody.)

Under this state of emergency, he will of course either suspend the Congress or suspend the parts of the Constitution dealing with removing presidents from office.

[Radical Activist]

12. How about we just occupy the Capitol building until Bush is removed?

Seems more effective. We can just have a big sit-in by 10 million people who refuse to budge until democracy is restored. Unless everyone is too practical, scared and docile to do something about it.

[Cleita]

14. ...

Sorry Dupe.

[nolabels]

16. Bring your back packs filled with food and free standing pup tents?

Didn't the veterans do this also? Camping out in D.C. till you get redress or.........

(snip)
Political Analysis

Power itself is not derived through violence, though in governmental form it is usually violent in nature. Governmental power is often maintained through oppression and the tacit compliance of the majority of the governed. Any significant withdrawal of that compliance will restrict or dissolve governmental control. Apathy in the face of injustice is a form of violence. Struggle and conflict are often necessary to correct injustice.

Our struggle is not easy, and we must not think of nonviolence as a "safe" way to fight oppression. The strength of nonviolence comes from our willingness to take personal risk without threatening other people.

It is essential that we separate the individual from the role she/he plays. The "enemy" is the system that casts people in oppressive roles.
(snip)
http://www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/HistoryNV.html

[Radical Activist]

19. It would be violent

I don't advocate the protesters starting the violence, but the national guard would start it if that were ever to happen. However, I think there is a limit to how much they can control the people. If 2 million people or more showed up to sit-in at the nation's capitol until democracy was restored it would take a blood bath attack from the troops to stop the people. I don't think we've gone so far that Bush could get away with that, or that the military would even be willing to do it. If it did happen then everyone would know that we no longer live in a democracy. Anyway, I don't believe any of that will ever happen and I'm just talking out of my ass.

On the other hand, we could expand it to include every state capitol as well for those who are far from DC. It really wouldn't take much to stop the functioning of government in a non-violent way if enough people were motivated to do it. That's why the FBI spends time tracking left wing radicals.

[nolabels]

21. I often thought these cardboard cutouts hanging around D.C. ..........

Were just plain cowards and frauds. Mostly it's about who blinks first.
The called the many, the people, the radicals, but mostly they are the ones not wanting to work within the system. Every time any little thing happens where they can't make enough profit off of their corruption they get the thugs to enforce just more rules. The Patriot Act should of been the tipping point for anybody paying attention (a lot were, thank goodness).

We all have to find enough people together make our government as we all see fit, nobody will give it to us unless we let them. People transcend the world when the world they see don't work.

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.' - Tom Clancy "

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.' - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)"

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.' - James Branch Cabell"

http://www.miniluv.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=471

[Cleita]

13. We are doing that anyway.

Bev Harris uncovered some election irregularities in our county during election 2002 with the electronic scanners. I just hope that the paper absentee ballots don't get accidentally shredded, burned or buried.

[Generator]

15. How about we just give * four more years by default

Oh wait-that's the meaning of "postponing the elections if there is a terrorist attack". It's just for our own good, right? Cause we can't be trusted to be a Democracy with terrorists around now can we? What if GASP SHUDDER HORROR we are like Ssssspain? It would be the end of Democracy. NO WAIT. WE are the Democracy, we the people, we just have forgot that for like the last few dozen years, huh???? WAIT-Republicans don't really believe in Democracy do they? They only believe in their way, kinda of like a Dictator ruling??? IS that it? OR is it GOD's law? Wait-is there a seperation of church and State-that certainly can't help us with GOD, but WAIT isn't that exactly the kind of world the terrorists want in the first place?