Ting: Could Hurricane Sandy wreak havoc on Election Day?
Superstorm Sandy
A pedestrian tries to cover from the rain and control his umbrella from the heavy winds in Baltimore downtown as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Atlantic coast of Maryland, on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Jan Ting
Jan Ting is a professor of law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law and a former Assistant Commissioner for Refugees, Asylum and Parole, Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice. Jan can be reached at janting@temple.edu.
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Accuracy posted at 1:41 pm on Wed, Oct 31, 2012.
Jan Ting wrote: “Both the Romney and Obama campaigns have studied and learned from what happened in 2000. Both campaigns have lawyers ready in every state to file lawsuits demanding recounts and citing voting irregularities if a close vote turns against them.”
Lawyers ready . . . in preparation for the upcoming election battlegrounds.
With the unimaginable damage of Hurricane Sandy, nearly 8 million people in the Mid-Atlantic States are without power and damage estimates range as high as $50 billion. Even in Cleveland, hundreds of miles away from New York and New Jersey, residents are cleaning up from Hurricane Sandy.
“Could Hurricane Sandy wreak havoc on Election Day?” President Obama and Mitt Romney don’t think so.
After canceling campaign events because of the storm, both Obama and Romney are returning to the campaign trails. And even with more than 8 million people without power, political television ads are still running across the country.
Mij14I posted at 8:49 am on Wed, Oct 31, 2012.
By the looks of the brief resume of the author of this OPINION peice, Mr. Ting is yet another parasite living off of an earmark of the Federal Budget. Commissioner of refugees, asylum and parole. (What the *&%^ is that all about?) Immigration and naturalization. . . those of us residing here in Arizona know what they are all about as lawyers. Do they? Weren't we suppose to have immigration reform come about the last four years? What we got was SB1070 and a US President filing suit against us. To sum it up, Jan Ting is another Radical Liberal of hysterical nature.
Why is ABC15.com and the East Valley Tribune making an election issue out of a weather disaster? By all indicators the polls in all the states in the path of Hurricane Sandy will be operational by next Tuesday. CBS This Morning, Fox News and ABC News have attributed Emergency Management directors of various states and spokes people for various electrical utilities serving the affected states power will completely restored in four days. So if it takes five days that makes the November 6th deadline. The polls won't be as comfortable as they were two or four years ago, but they'll be functional. Many of the states affected have early voting and several votes have already been cast.
People wise up. We don't need a wash out of a lawyer like Jan Ting creating havoc where there need not be any to enjoy his fifteen minutes of fame. I'm disappointed in the East Valley Tribune for insulting the intelligence of it readers by even running this. By all indications he's unhappy teaching law at Temple University so he's trying to drum up some private work by manufacturing law suits regarding elections, A classy way of chasing ambulances.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to set election day. Congress has set election day as the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. It doesn't take a PhD in History to know the early presidential elections in the U S were conducted without the convenience of electricity.