91.   Security was tightened in the capital, Colombo, and other major towns, with armed police standing at metal barricades on roads leading to election department offices.

92.   Secretary of State Matt Blunt, a Republican, is to keep watch personally at the election board office.

93.   She said she plans to make an announcement on Tuesday after the papers are filed at the state elections office in Tallahasssee.

94.   Supporters of the candidates clashed briefly outside the Guayaquil elections board office on Monday, but no injuries or arrests were reported.

95.   The board there is awaiting a court ruling on a similar request in the presidential race, said Ruth Kimbrough of the Miami-Dade elections office.

96.   The group was met by a lower-ranking official from the information department and the security chief at the election committee office.

97.   The lawsuit came after hundreds of Gore supporters flooded the Palm Beach County elections office with calls Wednesday, saying they feared they had mistakenly voted for Buchanan.

98.   The lawsuit came after hundreds of Gore supporters flooded the Palm Beach County elections office with calls, saying they feared they had mistakenly voted for Buchanan.

99.   The national elections offices in downtown Freetown also were hit with grenades and gunfire.

100.   The parties submitted their lists of candidates to district election offices on Friday.