41.   But commission officials said they hoped the size of the penalty would lead companies to take election laws more seriously.

42.   But he ruled that Congress wrote election laws to ensure that the Federal Election Commission handled such disputes before they reached the courts.

43.   But election officials in Massachusetts and Maryland knocked Boston and Baltimore out on the grounds that the poll violated election laws.

44.   But Huang has asked for limited immunity for violating election laws and may not appear before the panel.

45.   But Ickes suggested GOP charges that the Clinton campaign circumvented election laws were motivated by raw partisanship.

46.   But she agrees that widespread differences in election laws and deadlines across the country breed confusion.

47.   But Reno has narrowly interpreted the Independent Counsel Act and determined in several instances that the sometimes arcane election laws had not been broken.

48.   But she conceded that as a member of Congress, hehad devoted far more effort to arms control, the environment and technology policy than to election law.

49.   But some experts on federal election law were troubled that the message strongly implies that the money will help the Gore-Lieberman ticket pay for issue advertisements.

50.   But that same decision also said that a state supreme court ruling interpreting state election laws was a local matter not subject to federal review.