His policies may be controversial, but the legitimacy of his tenure no longer is. Dan Keating, a colleague who's very much involved in a recount being undertaken by a consortium that includes the Washington Post and nine other news organizations, makes a number of points worth keeping in mind. We're trying to figure out as completely as we can what happened. Even the question of how people ruined their ballots is worth answering. I've seen some instances where a voter entered a check mark for a candidate, then checked the write-in box and entered that same candidate's name in the blank.
Nobody can be sure just what happened then.
That's why we didn't run to see how quickly we could get this thing completed. We opted instead to do as thorough a job as we can. Not in the least.