91.   Nightly newscasts on both Fininvest and RAI networks Saturday announced they would give first exit poll results as soon as the polls close.

92.   No official results were expected until polls closed on the mid-Atlantic Azores islands, which are two hours later than the Portuguese mainland.

93.   No official results were expected until polls closed on the mid-Atlantic Azores islands, which have a two-hour time difference to the Portuguese mainland.

94.   Pedro Hugo Pena, president of the national voting tribunal, said after polls closed that final results would not be known until Thursday or Friday.

95.   Polls close Thursday afternoon.

96.   Polls closed first in the more populated eastern states several hours ahead of Western Australia because of time zone differences.

97.   Polls closed in the late afternoon with no immediate reports of any problems.

98.   Polls close Thursday afternoon, and results are expected Friday.

99.   Polls closed first in Indiana and Kentucky where interviews as voters left their polling places indicated Bush earned easy victories as expected.

100.   Polls closed in the afternoon to get the laborious counting process started before sunset.