if "thousands" will be implicated, maybe it's a good idea to continue the investigation

[RockRaven]

3. Maybe it would have been a good idea to recognize the time sensitivity of another election

two years hence, treat it as a hard deadline, and make whatever decisions were necessary -- even if less than ideal -- to have substantive results well before that next election, recognizing that failure to do so would materially degrade the likelihood of ever having fair elections again.