"I don't have the power to require people to supply us with data," the FBI director, James Comey, said in 2015, in the wake of harsh criticism of the bureau's flawed count.
But the majority believed then, and still believes, that a flawed count is worse than no count at all.
Mwai Kibaki, the president who won re-election last week after a deeply flawed vote count, invited Raila Odinga, the top opposition leader who said he was cheated out of victory, to talks on Friday; Mr. Odinga indicated that he would go, if certain conditions were met.
The facts speak for themselves and show that the CAG's findings are flawed on multiple counts.
In her speech, Ms. Palin championed more drilling, not only onshore but on the outer continental shelf — an idea flawed on two counts.
Only a few months ago, they recalled, the State Department and the Organization of American States were criticizing the Haitian government for the delayed and flawed final vote counts in that country's legislative elections.
It flatters the ego of economists to assume that corruption is an economic phenomenon when it could reasonably be classified as a cultural one that is only haphazardly connected with economic causes.RICHARD HYSEOswego, New YorkSIR The arguments that openness reduces corruption are flawed on several counts.
In Washington, DC, meanwhile, the squabbling politicians averted a default over the debt ceiling with a deal that is flawed on two counts: it enshrines short-term fiscal contraction when the economy needs a boost, and it fails to reduce the medium-term deficit.
Fair enough: immigrants tend to have more children, so they consume more education services than natives.But the methodology is flawed: the children who count as part of the costs of immigration when they are young are treated as "natives" when they begin to pay taxes.
The observers reported yesterday that media coverage in the runup to the election had been hugely skewed in Lukashenko's favour and that the vote count was "flawed" and "bad or very bad in almost half of all observed polling stations".
Interestingly, neither the Great Clade Race nor computer simulations significantly improve students' misconceptions about node counting (Perry et al. 2008), suggesting that subsequent exercises should emphasize why node counting is flawed.
