Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are enlisting an unprecedented number of lawyers in case election-day disasters make them want to challenge the results, the Boston Globe is reporting.
And this year we have one more potential disaster to add to a list that already includes voter suppression, machine glitches, and allegations of fraud: Hurricane Sandy.
The superstorm has not only stopped people from voting early -- something Obama has pushed for -- but it could also hurt people's ability to go to the polls on Tuesday, the Globe pointed out.
"If there are lingering problems, lack of power, impassable streets, closed polling places -- all of those things could lead to litigation just before or on Election Day," election law expert Richard Hasen told the Globe.
The Globe didn't specify the exact number of election lawyers working for the campaigns but said there were "thousands."
In Florida alone, at least 5,000 lawyers have volunteered to serve as poll watchers for Obama on election day, Politico reported Sunday.
Given the lastest complications introduced by Sandy, one might wonder why the election just couldn't be postponed.
USA Today reports postponement would be highly unlikel since federal law requires elections to be held on a specific day. The country has held elections during tough times before -- including in the middle of the Civil War, USA Today noted.
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