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Article: State Election Officials Told to Step Up Security Efforts
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 27, 2004
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State election officials have issued a bulletin to the 50 states
and the District to step up security preparations and contingency
planning for disruptions to safeguard national balloting in case of
an al Qaeda attack.
U.S. counterterrorism officials are mobilizing to deter such a
plot, although they say there is no intelligence about timing or
targets. Analysts are alarmed about the possibility of direct attacks
at election sites within the United States or a domestic reprise of
last spring's Madrid train bombings before national elections in
Spain.
"The information that the federal government has tells us the
prudent thing is to make sure we do everything we can to reduce
anxiety, and to ...