21.   Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister who heads the other main party, has said she will return from self-exile to contest the election.

22.   Besides his health, political factors could keep Yassin, or one of his followers, from contesting the elections.

23.   Boies argued that no state law or court precedent suggests that any recount stemming from a lawsuit contesting an election must be a statewide recount.

24.   A Gore win would have maintained the status quo, permitting him to continue contesting the election by seeking additional recounts.

25.   Bush also urged Gore to reconsider his plan to contest the election.

26.   But Dean said Dwyer told him that she would not contest his election in the Legislature if he did garner the required majority.

27.   But Vice President Al Gore did not concede, and his campaign vowed to contest the election in extraordinary legal proceedings not seen by any American now living.

28.   But, as Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams explained, the party had to contest the election to show it has an electoral mandate.

29.   But, whatever improprieties the justices might say occurred before certification, Florida law permits a candidate to contest an election after certification by filing a lawsuit.

30.   Contesting an election consists of two separate stages.