But human rights campaigners say that Morsi has so far shown little desire to follow through on his electoral promises – perhaps through a desire to avoid a police mutiny.
Yet the president continues to play small ball, to calculate his campaign around the math of the electoral college rather than the desires of the American public to hear that something better lies ahead.
Mr Rwasa described the results as a "joke," and declared the victor was that desired by the electoral commission and "not those expressed by the voters".
His spokesman said it reflected a desire to "Afghanize" the electoral process.
"I know that eight years of systemic disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence had its desired effect on the electoral process in Georgia," Abrams said.
Rather, he seems keenly aware that his electoral success is linked less to a desire for progress than to a fear of backsliding.
The bond endures, but the marital separation of Mr. and Mrs. Gore, and their desire to let go of electoral politics, have ended their role as a storied political family that figured in every presidential election from 1988 to 2008.
"The electoral process is a balance between the desire of each individual voter to have his or her intended vote recorded and the right of the public to a clear, final result within a reasonable time," she said.
If radicals can be brought into electoral politics, the theory goes, their demands and desires will become manageable.
After a tense stand-off, Mr Karzai formally opened the parliament on January 26th four months after the elections.Mr Karzai's new concern for electoral malpractice had little to do with any desire to root out electoral fraud, however widespread.
