1.   Dodd said he was not trying to impose federal standards regarding the types of voting machinery to be used or how elections should be conducted.

2.   During the first four years, more than half of the grants would go to poorer communities that cannot afford to update voting machinery.

3.   Furthermore, the worst voting machinery was, miracle of miracles, positioned in areas with the highest number of minority voters.

4.   The report lays out a detailed recipe for improving elections, from improving voting machinery and ballot design to strengthening state registration procedures.

5.   An election would be risky for both parties, but would probably favor Inkatha, which has greater control over the voting machinery in the province.

6.   At the state level, modernization of voting machinery is the paramount issue arising from Florida.

7.   Commission Vice Chairman Cruz Reynoso said he was bothered by reports that some Florida lawmakers have said no serious problems occurred beyond voting machinery.

8.   Foreign observers gave a reasonably clean initial report on the voting machinery, and the balloting produced two strong front-runners and a respectable third-place kingmaker.

9.   The report laid out a detailed recipe for improving elections, from improving voting machinery and ballot design to strengthening state registration procedures.