1.   Blunt declined to say whether he thought the outcomes of any races were influenced by questionable ballots.

2.   About one-third of the questionable ballots had been counted by midday Friday.

3.   Committee members discussed mandating the use of optically scanned ballots statewide but heard that switching over would not eliminate all questionable ballots.

4.   However, an expert on voting patterns cited in the story said there was only a slight chance that discarding the questionable ballots would have made Gore the winner.

5.   However, the three members of the board plan to deliberate over questionable ballots on Friday and Saturday.

6.   If all four participants agreed on which presidential candidate the ballot was for, it was placed in a corresponding pile for questionable ballots.

7.   If those questionable ballots were to be voided, she said, they would be more than enough to overturn the election results.

8.   In both cases, however, Judicial Watch noted that the canvassing board was more likely to count those questionable ballots in favor of Gore than Bush.

9.   In Broward, they complained that chewing gum could be used to surreptitously remove chads from questionable ballots.

10.   Initially, board members held questionable ballot cards to the light, trying to determine whether the voter tried but failed to punch through for a particular candidate.