Ebola Outbreak: Liberia Cancels Nationwide Election Over Ebola Concerns
Source: IBT
Liberia has canceled its nationwide Senate elections scheduled for Tuesday over concerns that the election commission could not safely operate poll stations given the countrys ongoing Ebola crisis. Officials said the elections, in which almost 3 million voters were expected to participate, would have endangered lives and could not be carried out at this time, according to the Agence France-Presse.
Liberia was slated to vote in half of its 30-member upper chamber. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf exercised her authority to declare a state of emergency and suspended any and all rights ordinarily exercised, enjoyed and guaranteed to citizens.
[The government] has been unable to undertake several of the processes that are prerequisites to conducting the pending 2014 Senatorial elections, including the deployment of staff in the field to conduct civil/voter education, the recruitment and deployment of the required polling staff at polling centers, [and] the importation of basic, essential and sensitive electoral materials due to the suspension of flights to Liberia, the president said in a statement late Wednesday.
Liberia has been hit the hardest by the Ebola outbreak, with more than 3,900 cases. Over 2,200 of those were deadly, according to numbers from the World Health Organization. President Sirleaf said Wednesday that international aid to help combat the Ebola epidemic was arriving too slowly. However, she said there were signs that the outbreak could be in decline, Reuters reported.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/ebola-outbreak-liberia-cancels-nationwide-election-over-ebola-concerns-1702203
How long before the nutjobs in this country point to this and claim it will happen here?
jwirr
(39,215 posts)purpose? Influenza? Polio?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)because I do not expect there will be an ebola epidemic.
branford
(4,462 posts)brooklynite
(94,501 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)As we speak about right now hate radio is claiming that Pres O will call for Martial Law.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Several of the RW sites have been bleating about canceled elections for a few weeks now.
Most notably Ben Carson.
http://beforeitsnews.com/u-s-politics/2014/09/dr-ben-carsons-dire-warning-2016-elections-cancelled-obama-president-for-life-2474564.html
Erik Rush, as the conservative commentator in his latest column warns that not only will President Obama confiscate guns in order to usher in Chinese Communist rule, but he might also cancel the 2014 elections.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/erik-rush-obama-cancel-election-bring-nation-under-heel-communism
One site is even saying it is the Left wing that is predicting canceled elections!