NC Governor suggests suspending elections 'for the duration of the crisis'

[robkelk]

I've heard it claimed -- although it may simply be an urban legend -- tbat Nixon asked the Rand Corporation to study the feasibility of cancelling the 1972 elections because of the "youth unrest" (and got told, essentially, "are you insane?").

http://www.rand.org/about/faq.html]RAND's website says this is an urban legend. It does make for a good story, though - especially since they've been denying it since 1970.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012