Well, bbruce, the regular election on the regular day would be cancelled, which is what I was thinking of. As in "Today's game is cancelled because of rain; come back later." And I suppose it stuck in my mind because it's the word freightdog used.

So, anyhow, if delay is the correct word, delayed how long? Until the war on terrorism is over?

I've seen a lot of temporary regulations, tax assessments and so on that turned out to be not so temporary.

If an attack is severe enough kill all the candidates and/or to shut down all the polls we'll have more to worry about than an election. If it's just a few polls, we can do whatever we'd do if a fire or flood or whatever wiped out a polling place. And I'll admit I don't know what that is, but if there is no provision, perhaps we could give some special dispensation to those places without delaying the whole nation. That wouldn''t need much delay, say the time it ordinarily takes to count the absentee ballots.

It's the part about delaying everybody's vote that scares me. That's the kind of thing that could lead to "President for Life."

clint