31.   It was complained about on election day, a complaint implicitly acknowledged by the election supervisor, who put out a flier on election day warning about the problems.

32.   It was designed by Theresa LePore, the elections supervisor in Palm Beach County, Fla.

33.   It is up to the elections supervisor of each county to agree, and the officials in Broward and Dade counties have not yet responded.

34.   Last week a state task force looked into ideas for reforming elections procedures and county election supervisors from around the state met to make their own suggestions.

35.   Lawyers for the election supervisor and the state Republican Party, which also was sued, have said they did nothing wrong.

36.   Lawyers for the Democratic National Committee complained twice in writing to Theresa LePore, the election supervisor who designed the ballot.

37.   Local election supervisors sometimes found voters identified as felons though they were only convicted of misdemeanors.

38.   One person conspicuously absent Saturday was elections supervisor LePore, an elected Democrat and the woman who devised the butterfly ballot at the center of the controversy.

39.   Richman based much of his case on statements made by Sandra Goard, the election supervisor.