E.J. Dionne on another one of those lovely situations where an election was held and the vote totals are of questionable accuracy.
You know, a political figure or pundit could earn a lot of my respect — and I suspect that of more important folks — if he ever said, of a vote count that his side allegedly won, "We need to fix this system so that everyone can have confidence in the final totals." But no one ever says that unless their side lost, and then it gets dismissed as sour fruit of some kind.