51.   No one was hurt, and the electoral council said it had replaced the destroyed materials and voting would not be affected.

52.   On Saturday, the provisional electoral council said it was delaying the campaign from Monday to Wednesday to make time to vet candidates.

53.   Preval has refused to intervene and revoke the electoral council.

54.   PRI legislators in Yucatan tried to stack the state electoral council with party faithful, then ignored a federal court order to accept a more impartial board.

55.   Premier Rosny Smarth resigned Monday amid a crisis about allegedly rigged elections, saying he could not cover up for abuses of the provisional electoral council.

56.   Preval claims the contested electoral council is independent and has refused to dismiss it.

57.   Preval delivered the U.S. message to the electoral council Thursday morning, the source said.

58.   Rene Preval named the nine-member electoral council in a radio broadcast Tuesday.

59.   Several barred candidates and their partisans threatened violent action against the electoral council.

60.   Smarth announced his resignation during a nationally broadcast address to Parliament, saying he did not want to be a party to fraud by the electoral council.