41.   The down-to-the-wire presidential vote count in Florida has been a pageant of democracy that could be played out only in America.

42.   The evidence in the presidential vote would seem to justify court action.

43.   The final presidential vote count, including absentee ballots, will not be concluded until Friday.

44.   The move threatened to impede the hand recount of presidential votes in the disputed county, but she was quickly replaced by a county court judge.

45.   The opposition accuses the government, and Lavalas, of trying to delay these elections until a presidential vote in December, when Aristide will run again.

46.   The recount of the presidential votes is nearly finished.

47.   The state of Alabama has joined the legal battle over how to recount presidential votes in Florida.

48.   The U.N. mission here said it does not anticipate the outbreaks of the violence that have marred presidential votes here in the past.

49.   They will be counted Saturday morning, and the totals will be added to the existing presidential vote counts for Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.

50.   This is an election year, and the Fed historically has refrained from fiddling with interest rates ahead of a presidential vote.