emergency elections
the press reports this morning that fearing that terrorists might target US lawmakers en masse, the house of representatives approved a bill yesterday to set up speedy special elections in the event that one hundred or more of its members are killed.critics of the 45-day election plan said it is both too short a time for some states to prepare for an election and too long to leave congress in a paralysed state (or not enough time for electioneering and partisanship?) in the aftermath of an attack.
