And even though the electoral commission had some problems meeting deadlines or updating voter lists, consensus across the political spectrum is that Wednesday's vote will deliver genuine legitimacy to the winner.
Maybe this is why so many tech companies suffer from morale problems, missed deadlines, customer-support disasters, and high turnover.
Look, I have always had problems with deadlines.
(This year, I met a young critic from Moscow who was having problems with deadlines because of the 11-hour time difference with his editor.
The team experienced problems with deadlines and funding during development, with the game eventually being heavily redesigned and renamed Jane's Attack Squadron at the request of the publisher.
As a traditional print reporter, she had a problem with deadlines, trying the patience of many editors.
The thought you did not have was, "Where in the world did they find ramps to photograph two weeks ago?" The problem of deadlines that involve nature sometimes plays havoc with what we have to prepare for camera.
Know that they often have a problem with deadlines.
Peter Feaver, who advised Mr. Bush on national security, talks of the "multiple audience problem," the deadline that sounds different to different ears.
In a dissenting opinion, Justices Souter and Ginsburg said that while the law did not raise a separation of powers problem, the deadline it imposed for judicial action was so short as to raise a question of whether the law violated the constitutional right to due process.
