1.   He has vowed to oversee the elections impartially.

2.   An independent body was created to oversee the elections, but irregularities have already been reported.

3.   As part of a government drive to reform the union, the election will be overseen by court-appointed monitors and investigators.

4.   Barbara Zack Quindel, the federal official who oversaw the election, invalidated it and ordered a new vote because of the improprieties.

5.   Abubakar also created the Independent National Electoral Commission, appointing as its chairman a respected judge, Ephraim Akpata, to oversee the elections.

6.   But Carol A. Roberts, who sits on the local board that oversees elections, dismissed that figure as impossibly high.

7.   But the international organization overseeing the elections postponed local voting at least until December because of widespread irregularities in registration.

8.   Carey campaign officials then lied to the federal official overseeing the elections, asserting that the money came from the sale of campaign merchandise.

9.   During this period Preval shut down Parliament for more than a year, and this spring the government oversaw legislative elections whose legitimacy has been widely disputed.

10.   For the first time, a politically balanced national commission will oversee the election.