Keywords
terrorists, election, presidential
Abstract
The article begins by expressing surprise that there is no safeguard for regularly scheduled elections and that if an election would have to be cancelled or postponed it is unknown what would happen. It then discusses what happened to elections during 9/11/2001 and the lack of statutory guidance ensuing from there, and discusses how some states have addressed the problem of an affected election, and questions what would happen to the presidential election in the face of such events. It questions whether Congress should attempt to legislate for such an event and gives a suggestion for what can be done in the event of a failed election on the part of Congress and some guidelines for that action and concludes by stating that Congress must address this issue.
Recommended Citation
Jerry H. Goldfeder,
Could Terrorists Derail a Presidential Election?,
32 Fordham Urb. L.J. 523
(2005).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol32/iss3/4