1.   Assuming contests are filed locally in Florida, officials there should use that time to advantage.

2.   Boies said that the Gore campaign would probably file another contest to the election in Palm Beach County and elsewhere.

3.   If the vice president chooses to go forward, he is filing a contest to the outcome of the election and that is not the best route for America.

4.   If the vice president chooses to go forward, he is filing a contest to the outcome of the election.

5.   Republicans say they will file no contests of their own, but will defend any of the contests filed by Gore.

6.   Technically, only the electors supporting presidential candidates are on the ballot, the brief said, and only they can file contests.

7.   They said the contest was filed too far past the deadline to be legal.

8.   Boies said that contests would be filed in at least three counties - Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Nassau.

9.   In Florida, Gore lawyers said that if Bush remains in the lead Sunday night, a contest would be filed no later than Monday.

10.   Only electors can file contests because only electors supporting presidential candidates are on the ballot, the motion reads.