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Elections?
Do you think the elections will go on as scheduled due to Sandy?
Re: Elections?
Yes, without a doubt.
Not sure. Probably? But it's up to each state. And elections have been rescheduled in the past, although the one cited here was just a state election. But it must happen 6 days before the Electoral College meets:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/10/hurricane_sandy_election_what_if_people_don_t_have_power_on_election_day.html
A presidental election has never been rescheduled before. I don't think it will it's still a week away.
I don't think the "only" reason why is a terrorist attack, I am sure natural diaster or something else could be a reason to reschedule it.
I can only see if most people don't have power it would be impossible to go out and vote-- so I am not s ure how that would work. Most people without power in NY and NJ won't expect it back on for another 5-7 days..
I think if the storm had hit two or three days later there would be serious talk of delaying voting in some affected states. Since most of the hardest hit states are Obama locks it could have had an odd effect where the election was essentially "called", but New York/New Jersey still had to go out and vote and make it official. However, from the sounds of things, in a week the affected areas will have recovered enough to hold elections.
Delaying the election itself would be incredibly complicated. But the issue at hand is whether or not everyone who shows up to vote will be able to cast a ballot. Areas without power, if there are still some on Tuesday (likely scenario)- will we see widespread use of paper ballots that will delay vote tallying?
My local paper ran an article today about this and mentioned that places could extend voting hours to compensate for foreseeable problems the day-of. Problem there- votes cast outside of pre-designated hours must be cast via provisional ballot, and there are different rules with verifying and counting those (and it is because of this and Ohio's absentee initiative that there's concern of Ohio being the Florida 2000 this election).
At this point, I would not be overly surprised if election day itself is anticlimactic and we don't know who wins for a few weeks. Particularly if Ohio or Virginia are having technological issues (last I saw, areas in NE OH were having storm-related issues but I don't know how severe), or if Ohio sees as many provisional ballots cast as some people have been fearing for a couple weeks now.