61.   Electoral officials comparing preliminary first- and second-round turnouts said about the same number of people appeared to be voting Sunday.

62.   Electoral officials reported a big turnout.

63.   Electoral officials said Monday afternoon that Democratic Revolution, which held only one mayorship before, appeared to be winning at least three.

64.   Electoral officials said turnout was good.

65.   Eleven of the candidates on the ballot had criminal records, ITAR-Tass quoted electoral officials as saying.

66.   Gbagbo said Wednesday he would finish the count, and electoral officials subsequently appeared on state television to announce local district vote tallies.

67.   Habibie intervened in the dispute on Tuesday after pleading several times with electoral officials to bury their differences and release the results.

68.   Guei dissolved the elections commission, a move that Daniel Bamba Sheik, a senior Interior Ministry official, blamed on massive fraud and the inability of electoral officials.

69.   Habibie intervened in the dispute Tuesday after pleading several times with electoral officials to bury their differences and release the results.

70.   He accused electoral officials of delivering ballots to ruling party strongholds first, and then much later or not at all to opposition areas.