The crisis has caused a communications logjam in Washington this week, with officials being swamped with requests for comment and not returning calls or answering e-mails.
It's therefore entirely wrong for Mr Carmichael or anyone else to claim returning officers did not have a say in the planning and execution of the May elections or that the Scotland Office alone made the decision on auto-adjudication during the e-count on May 3.
The last thing I want them doing is blaming us for not returning a call or fixing a problem that we promised to fix by the end of the day.
Bush has on only two or three occasions met with the families of fallen servicemen and women, most recently at Fort Carson, Colorado, and he has not attended funerals or greeted caskets returning from Iraq.
And if a punter starts to cause trouble, staff are expected to practise voice control "so you are not returning any sign of confrontation or aggression".
Many of the abuses were due to poor administration, such as not responding to letters from the agency or returning contracts in time.
However, Moody's panned the move Monday afternoon, saying it marked a negative divergence with the company's practice over the past decade of not returning profits to shareholders through dividends or buybacks.
"You can never be prepared for that - to tell 18 to 20 families that their loved one would not be returning to them that day or in the future, " he said.
Republican pollster Ed Goeas points out there are already three dozen so-called blue dog Democrats who will be returning to Congress, and they may or may not toe the party line.
Bam said the magistrate who imposed the original bail restrictions last month had not included the prohibition on Pistorius returning to his home or a requirement that he report to a police station twice a week in the written court order he signed.
The country is not returning to 1977 and its home-made fancy-dress costumes or Coronation bunting dug out of attics.
Police said returning officers became suspicious after the applications did not match up to council or electoral roll records.
Even if they are returning, Democrats may not want to reveal their hand too soon, or the hand of any Republicans they might be working with.
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It is not easy to explain to a single mother who recently lost her job, or a veteran returning from serving our country, why their bank is sending them a letter offering to modify their loan one day and threatening them with eviction the next.
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