31.   In June his respected Interior Minister, Jorge Carpizo, who also leads the government agency that monitors elections, announced he would resign.

32.   In recent months alone, Carter Center observers have monitored elections in Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.

33.   It is absurd that Americans monitoring overseas elections should insist on independent overseers, yet disdain them at home.

34.   Leaders of Alianza Civica, a citizen group that monitors elections across the country, charged that local media gave more favorable coverage to the PRI candidates.

35.   Observers monitoring the elections in several states said the process was relatively clean, although they noted some irregularities.

36.   Now Smith, who heads the Helsinki Commission, will not be allowed to lead a delegation to Bosnia to monitor the elections there.

37.   One Republican House member who is closely monitoring the elections said that the volatility of the public mood argued for caution.

38.   Retired Gen. Colin Powell will help former President Jimmy Carter monitor parliamentary elections in Jamaica next week.

39.   Sali Berisha allowed the Vienna-based group to monitor Albanian elections, and he is now a former president.

40.   Several groups from outside Nigeria monitored the elections and are expected to release fuller details this week.