Some are in an uproar because some government officials want to look into procedures for delaying the election.

I should hope somebody's thinking about this. God knows I wouldn't want anything to happen to delay the election, but the worst possible thing that could happen would be a terrorist strike very close to or during the election and nobody having a clue what they can or should do. If a dirty bomb goes of the day before the election, or the day of, I don't want 500 Congressmen and innumerable local and state officials each with their own thoughts and plans and actions about how the election will take place. I don't want one Senator saying the election should be delayed a month and Representative saying it should be next week while the Election supervisor in Podunk Township, USA is saying "eh, just come back tomorrow" while the next county over is saying "vote now or never". That's chaos and we need to know what we're doing to avoid it.

If we're going to have a debate over whether we can, or how we can, or whether we should delay the election I want it held now, not 10 minutes after a terrorist attack. If the worst should happen I want a plan in place. I want people to know whether they're allowed to delay voting. If they are I want people to know under what circumstances it should happen. I want them to know how they can go about doing it.

If we decide that the election should be delayed under no circumstances then we should know that going in. If in the event of a terrorist attack that results in the election being delayed we should know going in whether that means every polling place in America shuts down... whether just those in the states, counties, or cities affected are shut down... whether votes already cast will count... whether they won't count... who has the right to make the call. This is stuff we need to know and a vast scream of "WE SHOULD NEVER EVEN THINK ABOUT THIS!!!!!" doesn't help. We need to at least think about it and if after thinking it's decided that a delay should never happen then so be it, but we can't allow that decision to be made without examining the situation.