31.   For example, if Miami-Dade County refuses to resume its recount, Gore may follow through on his threat to contest the election.

32.   Former Bosnian Muslim prime minister Haris Selijic is contesting the elections as head of a party opposed to President Alija Izetbegovic.

33.   GOP attorneys insist that the appropriate legal approach is for the Democrats to contest the election after the vote is certified, not before.

34.   He informed the lawyers he will set aside time Wednesday in case either side formally contests the election.

35.   In both cases, local Democrats filed lawsuits contesting the election, arguing that Republicans were given favorable treatment that had an effect on the outcome of the election.

36.   Militant groups have vowed to kill anybody contesting an election.

37.   Most Indian political parties contest elections with funds from companies.

38.   Musharraf has barred Bhutto, who lives in London and Dubai, from returning to Pakistan to contest the election.

39.   Sinn Fein decided to contest the elections only after the Social Democratic and Labor Party, or SDLP, which represents moderate nationalists, announced it would.

40.   Should Gore concede, Democratic Party officials suggested that he also would ask all lawsuits contesting the election be withdrawn.