# Frankenstorm hits on election day--what happens? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 28, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankenstorm-hits-on-election-day-what-happens/639114 "2012-10-28T06:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![benbo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@benbo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benbo1)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankenstorm-hits-on-election-day-what-happens/639114/17 "2012-10-31T09:28:50Z")
I brought up this scenario months ago, and the (mostly Leftist) trolls took much time to mock any suggestion that anything could happen, while providing little brain power to think up a real answer. I didn’t call it as a hurricane, but I did suggest it could be a natural disaster. Nothing supernatural, but I predict there will be some states (the very heavily Dem ones) who will refuse to hold their elections the scheduled day, then sue on the basis of lack of equal protection (since their state’s votes wouldn’t count once the electoral process determined the winner without them). Not surprisingly, I expect 1 of these to be NY (with maybe 1 or 2 others to do so out of solidarity). The original thread. Feel free to comment intelligently, trolls just move out of your parents’ basement & get a life. > **[Obama speaks: 'people, due to the extent of damage from \[insert event\], the...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=656614)** > > So let’s say in the summer or fall, we have a big terrorist attack or natural disaster (say the Cascadia fault goes active, which it does every 300 years, last time early 1700s). The damage is enormous: 1,000s dead, millions of acres destroyed,... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankenstorm-hits-on-election-day-what-happens/639114)._