Joe Biden has no authority to suspend 2024 election

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Joe Biden has no authority to suspend 2024 election
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The US Constitution grants Congress the power to set the timing of presidential elections, but social media posts claim Joe Biden gave himself the ability to suspend polls in the event of a new pandemic or other emergency.

, but social media posts claim Joe Biden gave himself the ability to suspend polls in the event of a new pandemic or other emergency. This is false; an April 2024 executive order makes no mention of elections, and constitutional experts say presidents have no authority to modify the electoralsigned an executive order April 12, 2024 that eliminated the position of Covid-19 coordinator and transferred those functions to the Office of Pandemic Preparedness Response.

"State law or court rulings may allow for an extension or postponement in the very rare, unlikely and extreme case a catastrophic disaster prevents voting from occurring on Election Day within a state or otherwise precludes a substantial fraction of a state's electorate from casting ballots that day.

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