Dealing with these controversies will surely prove a thorny problem, as one can see from the fact that in the 2000 presidential election in the US, the two sides still remained deeply divided after five weeks of investigation into the disputed count of ballots in the state of Florida.
而以二○○○年美國總統大選時在佛羅里達州出現的計票爭議來看，歷經五個多星期的調查仍僵持不下，可見解決的棘手程度。