31.   A widespread, criminal conspiracy to violate federal election laws stares the nation in the face.

32.   A state agency that investigates election law violations determined Wednesday that a Stratford councilman elected in November was probably not a U.S. citizen at the time.

33.   According to Texas election law, because he voted in the Democratic primary, Epperson cannot run for his own seat as a Republican in November.

34.   According to lawyers who have seen the FEC memo, the auditors concluded that the Democratic issue ads contained electioneering messages that could have violated federal election laws.

35.   According to state election law, because he voted in the Democratic primary, he cannot run for his own seat as a Republican in November.

36.   After a fractious debate on election laws, the last thing most Americans need to witness is an assault on the establishment clause of the Constitution.

37.   All of which is business as usual in New York, which has the most arduous election laws in the country, controlled by the party hierarchy.

38.   Bush contends authority to set election law resides with the state Legislature, and that election officials followed state law in awarding him the victory.

39.   Brown declined to comment on the election law that allows the corporate financing.

40.   But federal election laws are murky, complex and only haphazardly enforced by the under-funded Federal Election Commission.