Well, Eugene Volokh links to a blog that asks 4 good questions about election postponement. I tend to agree with this, as I’ve written in the comments to the original post here. Essentially, I am OK with the idea of planning for this eventuality because I can see it being necessary. I also agree that the power to postpone the election should not rest solely with the executive because the election directly affects that office. It would be the shortest path to dictatorship in a system that is otherwise very well set up to remain far, far away from it.

I don’t necessarily agree that the whole nationwide election should be postponed, however. While I can understand that concern of turnout and votes being affected by the rest of the country’s votes, I tend to think that it’s OK for that to happen. What if the voters in Florida had known it was that close? More voters would’ve come out for both sides and the percentages, I believe, would’ve remained the same. The point about Nader voters switching to Gore is relevant only because the vote in Florida was so damn close (something that the Florida voters wouldn’t know about their own state). This argument still makes me feel like California is a crap shoot since they know what the entire east coast has voted by 3 or 4 PM their time.