1.   At the regional election office in Port-au-Prince, thousands of discarded ballots lay like trash by the curb while disgruntled election officials tried to count votes amid bedlam upstairs.

2.   Because of legislative hurdles, money questions and the need to coordinate with other election offices, the county is far from replacing its machines.

3.   A State Department official said that, in the short term, it will be difficult to reform the election office and other electoral bodies.

4.   According to McDermott, powerful party officials from both sides raised a stink about the sealed off elections office.

5.   All day, the state elections office issued updates of recounts by Florida counties, but none matched the numbers being instantly reported by the Associated Press.

6.   All the voters have to do, in theory, is complete the forms and send them in to their county elections office.

7.   But a dearth of funding for state and local election offices over the last several decades has stymied updating polling places and voter enrollment lists, officials said.

8.   But it does prevent the parties from collecting voted ballots and delivering them to elections offices, as was done in the past.

9.   Carter demanded to know at a Palestinian elections office in the town of Abu Dis why two ballot boxes did not have locks.

10.   Citizens can already look at paper campaign reports for statewide candidates at individual election offices in each state.