Members of Congress have no power, indeed they have no rights, to arrogate to themselves the power to nullify an election absent such a compelling threat.
Musharraf placed the country under a six-week state of emergency late last year, during which he ousted most of the Supreme Court justices who had been expected to nullify his recent election victory on constitutional grounds.
This week election officials in the state of Washington announced that a referendum seeking to nullifythe recently passed law legalizing same-sex marriage has qualified for the November ballot.