1.   Because of delays in distributing the ballots, party members will now have until Thursday to declare their preference.

2.   Instead, the participants will declare their preferences publicly with a show of hands or by standing in Gore and Bradley clumps.

3.   Party members will then have a week to declare their preference before the results are announced at a second party gathering in Valley Forge, Pa.

4.   The next big test for the Republican candidates comes Tuesday, when GOP voters in Arizona, North Dakota and South Dakota will declare their preference.

5.   The United States and the European Union have not declared a preference.

6.   Many of voting age seemed intent to declare their preference for president despite death threats from extremist parties back home across the Mediterranean.

7.   President-elect Vicente Fox has met both candidates but refused to declare a preference.

8.   Still, after months of campaigning and thousands of candidate speeches, not everyone was ready to declare a preference.

9.   Yosef, who has the final word, has yet to declare his preference.

10.   South Korea has said it wishes to provide the reactors to the North, an offer refused by Pyongyang which has declared a preference for Russian or German reactors.