21.   Thirty-eight other counties used cards scanned by optical scanners and two counties used manual counts of paper ballots.

22.   This is the first time the county has used the Internet to try to track down heirs, officials said.

23.   Though the county used the new machines, one candidate cried foul after losing by four votes.

24.   Twelve other Florida counties also use it.

25.   Two counties still use paper ballots.

26.   Unless all counties use the same automatic tabulation system, he said, there will always be discrepancies.

27.   Twenty-four counties currently use punch-card systems, one uses written ballots and one uses a lever system.

28.   Counties used the machines to count early and absentee votes, or in some cases all votes.

29.   Escambia and Manatee counties use optical scanners that are supposed to immediately reject ballots that are improperly filled out and give voters another chance.

30.   Gov. Mark R. Warner declared a state of emergency at the dump Sunday, which allows the county to use state resources to help battle the blaze.