Robert Millan wrote:
This is far from what one would expect the Secretary to do. If results are really ambigous, or flawed in any way, what he should do is cancel the vote.
And I'm sure you would have been the first one to cry foul, there being, after all, no constitutional basis for the cancellation of a vote which has already entered the voting period - in any case not unilaterally by the (acting) secretary.